Intensified Continuity

In David Bordell's article, Intensified Continuity, he states that modern day Hollywood cutting consists of mainly fast paced cutting, as the ASL or average shot length has been decreasing since the 1960's and now rests at around 1.5, and "editing rates may soon hit a wall" as scenes will soon halt being long enough to watch as the images will just flash and all coherence will be lost, along with the continuity. Additionally, "In the studio years, a filmmaker would rely on the actor's whole body," stating that while filmmakers used to just rely on the actors, now they just use the actors as a face or as a name, because they can create continuity through the use of the varying angles of the camera and the different lenses they use. Now, "Today's camera prowls even if nothing else budges" and this allows continuity as the multiple camera angles allow a more complete perspective of the film to be formed creating a better viewer experience, while only losing ASL.