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Magnolia : Opening Sequence

A narrator tells 3 stories of coincidence: a triple hanging, a scuba diver's death, and a suicide attempt.

Opening Sequence
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aspect ratio, close-up, color, cut-in, displaced diegetic insert, dissolve, dolly in, dolly shot, explanatory insert, extreme long shot, eyeline match, following shot, framing, freeze frame, handheld camera, hard lighting, high angle, iris, long shot, low angle, low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, narrator, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, pan, rhythmic editing, special effects, tilt, voiceover narration, whip pan

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LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American
"Opening Sequence" in Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, New Line Cinema, 1999, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3725
This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Juni Singh

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