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Sometimes they’ll place the two characters side-by-side in medium shot, a choice that undercuts rather than deepens their intimacy.

Kantor and Twohey are often introduced in long shot or medium shot and surrounded by other women — perhaps because harassment and assault might happen to any woman, because any woman might want to make them right.

Observational, mainly in medium shot and almost plotless, “Xiao Wu” has a documentary quality.

But instead, all we get is a noncommittal medium shot of McCarthy looking vaguely apologetic, and a fuzzed-out shot of the bus stuck in a public fountain in the background of the next scene.

Television depends on the close-up, the medium shot and what a lot of showrunners refer to as “face acting.”