Drill and merging*

Classification in categories

• Formation of a group body (corps)

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The audiovisual interaction of strictly geometrically composed images and an authoritative voice-over stress the ritual of military drill which brings together a mass of individual, disrobed, men as a strong, uniformed army body (> EMU 1). The dissolving of geometric patterns within the shot that follows brings the auditory level to the fore of the level of composition. The alternation of music and an exhortatory voice-over produce a simulation of the experience of pain to come, which turns the introductory, still euphoric image of military potency into one of uneasy foreboding (> EMU 2).The audiovisual renewal that follows—of geometrically ordered images and the authoritative voice of the lieutenant—in the end negates the previously developed potential for fearful premonition with the motif of paternalistic order. Through the prominent split of a single weakened member of the battalion, the military collective body is finally also highlighted as strengthened (> EMU 3).    FS

Expressive movement units

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