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28 PUDOVKIN
i . The tramp — a degenerate brute, his face overgrown with unshaven bristles — is about to enter a house, but stops, his attention caught by something.
2. Close-up of the face of the watching tramp.
3. Showing what he sees — a tiny, fluffy kitten asleep in the sun.
4. The tramp again. He raises a heavy stone with the transparent intention of using it to obliterate the sleeping little beast, and only the casual push of a fellow, just then carrying objects into the house, hinders him from carrying out his cruel intention.
In this little incident there is not one single explanatory title, and yet it is effective,! clearly and vividly. Why? Because the plastic material has been correctly and suitably chosen. The sleeping kitten is a perfect expression of complete innocence and freedom from care, and thus the heavy stone in the hands of the huge man immediately becomes the symbol of absurd and senseless cruelty to the mind of the spectator who sees this scene. Thus the end is attained. The characterisation is achieved, and at the same time its abstract content wholly expressed, with the help of happily chosen plastic material.
Another example from the same film. The context of the incident is as follows : misfortune is come upon a family of peasants — the eldest son has been crippled by a blow with a stone ; the father has died of a heart-attack ; the youngest son (the hero of the film), still half a boy, knows who is responsible for all their ills — the tramp, who had treacherously attacked his brother. Again and again in the course