The Best Years Of Our Lives Vs Nobody Analysis

The Best Years of Our Lives vs Mr. Nobody
Something I noticed about The Best Years of Our Lives was the amount of fading that was put in in between scenes. Although not a specific trick shot, I found it interesting how the fading was used along with a small amount of dialogue was still able to set up the story.
In the opening, a majority of the scenes fad between each other, even with no dialogue of plot substance in between. Fred is walking, and the scene fades out, and he’s still walking in the same direction but in a new location. This scene fades too, and shows him in a third location. He exchanges a few words with someone, and once again the scene fades out.
In another scene later in the movie, the men, Peggy, and Milly are talking at a
Nobody has plenty of fades similar to those in The Best Years of Our Lives as well. For instance, after Nemo is forced to make a decision between living with his mother and living with his father (Seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey4BElpV7Pk ); shots of the train tracks are shown, fading in to one another speeding up; to symbolize time going by. We then meet Nemo as a young adult. (I could not find this exact part of the on click online.)
In the film Mr. Nobody, fading does not always mean a passage of time. For example, in one scene, teenage Nemo tells Anna he “doesn’t go swimming with idiots.” Realizing the mistake he just made, the scene is closes up on the Nemo’s eye, and fades into the next scene, which is the audience sees how Nemo’s words to Anna just effected his future with her. (Seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFM0O0f0N0 ) In this case, rather than a passage of time, the fading is meant to show an imagined thought.
Another third example of this is in Mr. Nobody’s “What Happens When We Fall in Love?” montage. The fading between shots is not meant to showcase time or a possible outcome, but instead to compare to things. (Seen here at 0:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt0omflid5w