https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/09/07/claressa/
Claressa is a movie that surrounds a successful middleweight two-time Olympic title winner and the obstacles she faced to get to that point as well as the struggles she continues to endure as an African-American female boxer. She marked history in 2016 when she proved her worthiness by being the first ever American, male or female, to win an Olympic title twice in a row.
Since this film obviously revolves around the world of sport entertainment, action-packed is an appropriate word to summarise the documentary. This means the fast paced editing employs very frequent scene changes and quick cuts - it's a very short movie filled with several clips of Clarissa training to become her very best, so naturally this means ascribing to the convention within boxing films of using close-ups or extreme close-ups to display the protagonist's angry or determined facial expressions in the good moments, or despairing and agonised expressions during the bad moments to spark a sense of sympathy within the viewer.
There is also a particular scene that uses montage editing to display the sheer amount of training the hardworking Clarissa does in her daily life. This makes the viewer root for the protagonist in a way, since they see that Clarissa deserves it. The lack of continuity editing serves to shift the audience's attention away from the plot and on solely Clarissa.
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