Category: 建築
《眨眼之間》是備受推崇的剪輯師華特·莫屈（Walter Murch）所撰寫的一部生動、多面向且發人深省的電影剪輯隨筆。從看似最基本的剪輯問題——為什麼剪接有效？——開始，他帶領讀者展開一場精彩的「旅程」，探索剪輯的美學與實務考量。過程中，他針對剪輯中的連續性與不連續性、夢境與現實生活、好剪接的標準，以及眨眼作為剪接的類比與情感提示等主題，提出獨到見解。第二版新增了莫屈對數位剪輯現況的深入省思。
The way Murch connects film editing to human perception and even architecture of thought is genuinely mind-opening—I read the whole thing in one sitting. His breakdown of why certain cuts feel seamless versus jarring gave me a completely new lens for watching movies.
Murch frames the "why do cuts work?" question so cleverly that even a non-editor like me followed every twist, and his writing on the blink-of-an-eye moment made me see jump cuts totally differently.
Murch’s chapter on why a cut works—not just where to make it—finally made editing click for me; the way he ties visual rhythm to blinking is something I’ll never unsee. It reads like a filmmaker thinking out loud, which is exactly what I wanted.
