Please enjoy "The Most Dramatic Scene Ever" from the TV serial Kasam Se ("Oath"/"Promise") for an epic dilation of the impossibly agonized mental states of the man and the woman in a scene where only presence, without spoken dialogue, produces such powerful emotional affect.
Thanks so much for sharing this. It is definitely … eye-opening! And not so much dramatic, this sequence seems experimental to me, involving a series of creative editing techniques. I would like to say something about this by placing it within the discussion of the notion of excess in melodrama, especially an excess of affect mentioned in your previous post. More than “underscor[ing] the primary of confrontation to the narrative” I feel this sequence also manages to create further layers of confrontation — somehow extra-diegetic, in relation to the viewers. This calls to the affective dimension of the scene, whose sensation impacts viewers of the confrontation viscerally and immediately. Tied up with a strong feeling of dizziness, instead of "slow[ing] down and inhabit[ing] the moment," I feel the moment is sped up and we as viewers enter a space transcending the narrative. I have to actively negotiate my own position with what's on screen simply because I feel triggered so intensely, although mostly it is a kind of equivocal stimulations. They are plot with significant meanings in both content and form and altogether creates something not melodramatic and concrete but ungraspable and abstract. To this end, I may see it as avant-garde. But my words only concerns with this 30-second clip — taking it out of the larger context. It may not make sense at all if we look at the whole thing.
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