Editing Example - Skins

Parallel editing is used to show that the protagonist and the girl are related and have a strong relationship. We can see through parallel editing that they lead very different teenage lives, showing binary opposite characters. She is coming home, rebelling against house rules and he has been sleeping as he is expected to. This conforms to Levi Strauss' idea that all narratives have opposites. The two narrative threads come together as she reaches the window and the cutaways show that she relies on him to cover up for her.