Review of Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Mary R — 25 Aug 2017

Battleship Potemkin is an enthralling and almost overwhelming film that contains no spoken words! Yet the stirring music that accompanies the exquisite cinematography intimately transports the viewer directly into the world of czarist Russia and revolutions.

This movie came out the year my father was born and he took me to see it when I was a young child. Years later I had the opportunity to travel to Odessa and I could almost relive the terrible massacre of innocent civilians on the staircase.

This movie is classified as a masterpiece for many different reasons, but most importantly, it is a brilliant flame of creativity that demands of us emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical responses--all of which define our humanity.