After the discovery of montage as a means of expression, it set off an extremely widespread boom in the field of film, and later, both creators and researchers identified him as the film's own unique expression method, and even montage was used as the whole and only means of film.
In a general sense, montage is interpreted as telling a film of various shots organized in some order and duration of time conditions, or a series of images or sounds that are merely connected through internal connections and can take the viewer anywhere.
Regardless of the interpretation, people have established montage as the language of the film, which is a unique way of expression of the film.
One of Smith's 1900 inventions in the film Grandmother's Magnifying Glass was to liberate the camera from a fixed state. He does not give any reason to alternate the panorama with the close-up in his film, which makes people feel novel and acceptable, thus getting rid of the rigidity of the viewpoint that Mérieux lets the camera camera shoot the stage motionlessly. This laid the foundation for the later Griffiths to discover the film's method of expression.
Since then, cinema has acquired its true character and has gradually evolved into a special language that is different from any previous artistic expression - montage.
The early montage was just a narrative of a plot with different points of view, different scenes, or different camera locations. It was not until later that people began to use the opposing composition of the lens, so that the audience could have a psychological impact from it, and cause various associations to obtain meaning other than the meaning of the lens itself, which are two different types of montage - narrative montage and performance montage.
After borrowing the language of montage lenses from the modern medium of communication, film has strengthened its own identity in many ways.