#HS film. nothing fancy (although we had solid equipment)

[frankiebirds]

why would you cut these scenes like this if not to cause me unbearable pain.

if i can be a film nerd for a second: they use a technique in this called a "J-cut" where the audio from the following shot starts during the picture of the preceding shot (an L-cut is the inverse). these are both extremely common and a lot of the time just function to make the cut more seamless, but they can serve a narrative function as well, and i think that's what the j-cut is supposed to be doing here.

jj says "she made me promise not to talk about her like a victim" and then we hear hotch say "victimology" while we're still looking at jj and therefore still thinking about what she's just said, which i think serves to emphasize the irony and make you more likely to notice it than if they'd cut the audio and picture at the same time. they keep us in the scene where garcia has just asked not to be talked about like a victim while we hear hotch doing just that