The word suture is the technical name for stitches used by surgeons.
Suture is usually applied to Hollywood films, due to the way they put the narrative, editing, sound and mise en scene together, the audience is 'sutured' into one possible preferred reading.
This means that the film will make the whole audience react at the same point, so the whole audience might cry or feel upset at the same point in the film.
One example of this is from the film Crash.
A shopkeeper has one to shoot a locksmith he blames for the break in to his shop, the locksmith saying the lock was replaced by the door was broken and must be fixed, and the shopkeeper didn't get the door fixed. While the shopkeeper talks to the locksmith with a gun pointing at him, the locksmith's daughter runs out to protect her father, as earlier the locksmith gave his daughter an invisible and inpenertable cloak to wear. As she jumps up to her father believeing in the cloak, the shopkeeper shoots.
The shots, lighting and music all cause the audience to feel emotional to some degree.
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