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Where an autonomous segment in a film is chronologically consistent and is narrated in a single event line (so that there is no intercutting to another simultaneous event) then a linear narrative syntagma is established. Within these sequences the narrated event can be continuous or discontinuous, where continuity is defined by there being no breaks or absences in the narrative, that is, no narrative ellipses. Where there is consistency of narrative time with narrated time then what Metz calls a scene is created, otherwise what is more ordinarily the case - sequences, result.
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