In the bookstore scene of Hawk’s The Big Sleep and the field dialogue of Ozu’s The Only Son, similar editing styles are used to convey two very different tones. Both of these scenes use shot/ reverse shot patterns to maintain spatial continuity throughout their dialogues, but Hak’s scene conveys a tone of intimacy while Ozu’s scene conveys a tone of distance. In The Big Sleep, the camera switches between shots of Marlowe looking at the bookstore clerk and shots of the bookstore clerk looking back at Marlowe. Both characters remain in the shot throughout the majority of the scene. The Only Son shows Ryosuke looking at his mother and his mother looking back; however, unlike in The Big Sleep, the characters are pictured separately in almost every
