Parallel editing

When we cut back and forth between two scenes and the action in one scene remains discrete from the action in the other scene that is to say one unit of action is not directly continuous from the other, parallel is maybe an operation. Parallel editing it a editorial technique which is used to make an abstract connection between a person or event or place in one scene and a person or event or place in another scene. A good example happens at the begging of lat resort directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. We follow a Russian woman arriving with her sun at UK customs and being detained there, we cut to another scene of a man who is English shadow boxing in his room and then going outside in the corridor to sort out an argument. Finally we cut back to the woman and her sun back at customs. The action in the two scenes in the 2 different locations in neither continuous nor directly connected. Parallel editing has being used to indicate a possible relationship dynamic between the two characters at some point forward in the narrative.