Review of Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Dfh D — 15 Sep 2007
Beautiful. Stunning. Exhilarating.
Everything in this film borders on the perfect: Shostakovitch's brilliant and chilling score, the documentary-like photography, and Eisenstein's signature powerful dialectic direction and editing make this film great.
It is propaganda, but it is propaganda that forces you to really think about what you're seeing, to synthesize the images with a story, to make even the most off-beat associations make sense; from the maggots to the lion statues.
The Odessa Staircase is, on its own, one of the greatest scenes filmed. With a devastating beauty and chaos, through Eisenstein's keen eye we see the togetherness of the people and the evilness of tsarism-- As propaganda, damn did this work, even made me consider becoming a communist for a moment...
In short, just watch this film, for my inarticulate review is meaningless drivel compared to Battleship Potemkin.
This review of Battleship Potemkin (1925) was written by Dfh D on 15 Sep 2007.
Battleship Potemkin has generally received very positive reviews.
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