Hey, that’s a neat observation! “Film” comes from the Latin *filmum*, meaning a thin sheet, which in Old French turned into a word for a translucent layer. When early cinematographers were talking about “film stock” they were literally talking about that physical layer of emulsion on a strip. Over time the word became shorthand for the medium itself, so you hear people say “I’m watching a film” instead of “I’m watching a movie.” Now, about the jump cut feeling like a sentence fragment: it’s a linguistic metaphor that stuck because a jump cut literally jumps from one “layer” of footage to the next, slicing out the intervening part—just like a grammatical fragment cuts off the rest of a sentence. In film grammar, the “layer” is the film reel, and a jump cut is a brusque transition that skips the continuous flow, leaving you with an abrupt, dangling image. So the physical sense of “film” as a thin sheet of material actually maps neatly onto the conceptual idea of cutting that sheet into pieces, which is exactly what a jump cut does—cutting away the connective tissue. That’s why the term “film” feels so appropriate for both the medium and the stylistic device.