Deliberately cut the blink. In Apocalypse Now , Murch created anxiety by cutting just before the audience expected a visual resolution. This forces the eye to work harder, simulating the character’s disorientation.
, Murch suggests that our brains are pre-programmed for the "jump-cut" because of a simple biological reflex—the blink. The Secret Life of a Blink in the blink of an eye walter murch pdf