"Strike" is Eisenstein's debut novel, and he has conducted many experiments in montage.
Even later, he filmed "Battleship Potemkin", which attracted worldwide attention. In the collection of essays, Ai found that the latter was much backward than "Strike". .
Watching the comparison between the bourgeoisie and animals at the beginning of the film, and the alternation of shooting workers and slaughtering livestock at the end, you can see the unique position of "Strike" in the vaudeville montage performance.
But it is precisely because of this that the film slightly deviates from the basic tasks and basic themes given to it by the Proletarian Cultural Association, and focuses too much on the form, while blurring the content and ideas.
At the same time as the filming of "Strike", Eisenstein broke with the Proletarian Cultural Association and was
eager to sing the revolution and create works truly worthy of the revolutionary people (in the film, the mass scene was emphasized over the revolutionary leadership)
and the Proletarian Cultural Association At that time, it was extremely harmful to deny cultural heritage.
It is not difficult to imagine that after the Second World War, when Soviet socialist realism occupied the commanding heights of creation, the old school of montage could only live in the second tier.
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