Film editing is considered the only art unique to cinema.

What you see above is a bit of the chase scene from the end of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. By this point in the movie (I would warn about spoilers but if you haven't seen The Shining by now you are really beyond my help) Jack Torrance has gone completely bonkers and tried to murder Wendy and Danny (and yet he still asks Wendy if she's the crazy one. Good job,  Jack.) Danny escapes out the window into a hedge maze full of snow and this is where we begin.

The editing in this scene really conveys just how confusing and dangerous the hedge maze is. Throughout the scene we cut to shots of the maze without either of the characters in the frame in order to establish the setting, highlight its monotony, and show it from the characters' points of view.

There is a lot going on in this scene, action-wise--or, I suppose, as much as any movie that isn't about explosions is going to have a lot going on--and it's spread over considerable space. What I mean by that is that Wendy is attempting to escape the hotel. She is outside the hedge maze while the other two characters are inside, and even they aren't in the same place.

Wendy is not actually introduced until halfway through the scene but the process of cutting to the different characters defines how we see the timeline of the scene, which is to say that a majority of it is happening simultaneously.

As far as Jack and Danny chasing goes, the shots that include Jack are longer than those that include Danny. I believe this is to highlight Jack's facial expressions and the considerable limp he has at that point; we need to see the character with time to absorb the details. Danny is fine, if frazzled and psychic (oh, and the part where his dad is chasing after him with an axe... can't forget that) but Jack is slowly freezing to death. In a way, the difference in shot length also sort of echoes that same dynamic.

There is one point during which Danny is close to escaping the maze, when we see Wendy running from the hotel. They are not in the shot together but we assume that they are running toward each other.

And then, of course, there's the jump cut to Jack's frozen body the next day. It is designed to startle the audience and serves its purpose well. The sudden, stark contrast between the black of the maze Jack had been wandering through and the white daytime snow only enhances the jarring cut.

The Shining is regarded as a favorite to a lot of people, so I think it goes without saying that it does a lot right. It also does this right, in my opinion. There is no point where we get lost spatially and no point where we are taken out of our immersion into the film. It is especially important for this to be a clear, well-edited scene because it is the climax; we cannot be jarred out of our immersion during the climax of a film.

In the words of Sonic the Hedgehog: That's no good!

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.