Editing is an integral part to movie making. You can't fit *everything* into a movie like in real life, so someone has to make decisions on how to cut and stitch scenes together.

One of the longest takes without a cut was in the movie The Player.

Andre Bazin helped form the realism tradition in editing. Bazin was a critic and didn't make his own movies. He believed that a filmmaker could edit too much, ruining an otherwise good scene.

Bazin also understood that rules are meant to be broken sometimes, that different people could interpret realism differently.

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