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This is a misunderstanding about what Anglo films versus Continental films. Just completely different approaches to filmmaking. Plot continuity or lack thereof is totally irrelevant to most continental genre films. A good example is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which has plot thin enough to perform surgery with, and it gets even more bizarre when the scenes cut from the America release are added
To Continental genre filmmakers, “A film is first and foremost a dream.” As per Jean-Pierre Melville. The Red Circle and The Samurai by him are even better examples of what I’m talking about
European genre films are character-driven and everything except the internal world of the characters and the cinematography are irrelevant. In Anglo genre films, the plot is the main character and it drives everything. The characters are not isolated inhabitants of a dreamworld (where each and every one of them could be dreaming and they don’t even share a dream), they are distinct characters who each fulfill an important function
America cinema is like a continuation of stage drama, tracing its lineage to Aristotle’s theory on plot and storytelling as a chain of A leads directly to B leads directly to C. Continental cinema draws its pedigree directly as an evolution of silent film, which is a totally different medium since you can’t even hear the delivery of the lines or the tempo of the dialogue. German filmmaking dominated Europe in the silent era, and the major ideas of art were expressionism which includes literature like Kafka
