due to See You Soon having few characters, a way of developing characters would be their interactions with objects as a lot can be told from cutting back and forth from the subject and an object based on the symbolism of the object.
This technique derived from Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov (13 January1899 – 29 March 1970). His theories and experiments have contributed to shaping the way films are edited today. one of his theories was that emotions from a character could be exposed by an object based on their order and juxtaposition. this theory was tested by Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s which was known as The Kuleshov Effect. For this experiment a close up of an actors face is shown this then cuts between a bowl of soup, back to the actor, to what appears to be a dead girl, back to the actor then to a woman laying down and then the cycle repeats. When screened to an audience, they raved about the actors performance however his expression did not change throughout the duration. This shows that splicing these objects in-between the close up of the actor based on there order caused the audience to make a psychological connection between each object and the actor.
The video below is a great essay on how Vsevolod Pudovkins theories are applied to Hollywood films today. he is also a Russian film theorist who claimed to have been apart of the The Kuleshov Effect.
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