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The Namesake : Closing Sequence

Nick/Gogol (Kal Penn) attends a going-away party for his mother, Ashima (Tabu), who is departing for India. He visits his childhood bedroom and discovers the Nikolai Gogol book that his father, Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) has gifted him, and speaks with his mother about his wife, Moushumi's (Zuleikha Robinson) affair.

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accented speech, asynchronicity (narrative), asynchronous sound, close-up, close-up, flashback, flashback, long shot, medium close-up, montage, multilinguality, music, empathetic, music, native, performance, point-of-view shot, shot/reverse shot, slow motion, sound lag, sound, internal diegetic (or semidiegetic), two-shot

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"Closing Sequence" in The Namesake. Directed by Mira Nair, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2006, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2332

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