It can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic aura or suspense or naturally to stress a moment in time. Vsevolod Pudovkin[?], for instance, used slow motion in a suicide scene in The Deserter[?], in which a man jumping into a river seems sucked down by the slowly splashing waves.
The opposite of slow motion is fast motion.
A VCR may have the option of slow motion playback, sometimes at various speeds; this can be applied to any normally recorded scene.
See also Motion picture terminology
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