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 | | Sequence eight, underlined by the music of "Colloquy" played most softly, slows this nearly two half-steps to fifteen and a half seconds per shot, and the opening sequence of Act Two, sequence nine, slows this another two half-steps to thirty-nine seconds per shot for the first 14:00 of the sequence. |
 | | For much of this sequence the montage is a series of medium and close one-shots on the speaker, the frame not allowing a view of the person who is reacting to the speaker until his reaction is verbalized. |
 | | In a lengthy shot of two minutes duration, Martha tells the story; "Our son was born in a September night,"(217) "beautiful, beautiful boy."(221) Her struggle to reveal this intimate part of her past gains impact from the camera close-up, the view being much closer than would be possible in a stage situation. |
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