Editing & Empathy in Big Little Lies

A video essay on how editing helps us empathise with the characters in Big Little Lies. Jean-Marc Vallée’s new TV show is HBO’s Sharp Objects based on Gillian Flynn’s novel. With four Golden Globes and eight Emmys, HBO’s Big Little Lies is one of the best received TV series of 2017. Most of the praise goes towards the outstanding performances by Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern but in this video I’d like to focus on something less obvious - editing. The show takes a unique approach to storytelling which uses