Monogatari Slides

Every time she thinks she has created a new slide, a new self-contained panel where he is just a footnote, she finds a hair of his on the bathroom tile. A shadow of his hand on the shower curtain. The dent in the floorboards where his desk used to stand.

And at the very bottom of the well, there is no mirror. There is only a door. monogatari slides

Consider the dialogue between Araragi and Senjougahara. It is a verbal tennis match. The cuts to black or text slides act as the breath between sentences, a structural caesura. This editing style disrupts the flow of traditional cinematic continuity. In a Hollywood film, the editing is invisible; in Monogatari , the editing is the text. Every time she thinks she has created a