The Godfather is a traditionally edited movie. This particular scene however uses Eisenstein's method of montage editing. Francis Ford Coppola uses hard cutting in order to show a stark contrast in the main character Michael Corleone. The scene begins with a shot of Michael's godson. In the Catholic religion,

Coppola chose to use a montage in this segment. The hard cuts between such polar opposites as baptism and murder reflects on the contrasts in the main character. Overall, Coppola used this segment to communicate how twisted Michael has become. Michael can no longer distinguish between good and evil or right and wrong. He only evaluates his actions on whether or not they help him. It also shows the changes he has made in the movie. The baptism and the baby represent good, which he was in the beginning of the movie. The murders represent the evil man he has become. Coppola uses the montage sequence with the fast cutting between the contrasting images to show how quickly Michael has transformed from "the good son" to the head of a Mafia crime family.

a newborn baby is born with original sin. At the moment of its baptism, it is the most pure thing on earth; it has no sin.

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