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What Metz characterises as the "sequence proper", that is an autonomous segment that narrates a continuous narrative episode, is able to be separated into two distinct varieties. These are to be distinguished from the 'scene' where temporal story continuity is preserved, so that in the sequence proper, in the ordinary course of narrating, story time is elided in some manner.
For Metz there is the 'ordinary sequence' where not all of the story time is presented within the syntagmatic unit, for instance we see a character rise from their chair and then in the next shot they're magically at the door - in other words we are not shown the time it has taken the character to walk from their chair to the door. In addition he defines the 'episodic sequence' which is a more complex unit.
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