October: Documentary of Those Years

Brenda 2022-07-27 19:40:57

The 10th screening day of the main competition unit of the 8th #faroeislandfilmfestival will bring you "October", and the following will bring you the passionate evaluation of the frontline red pioneers!

The song is wrong:

I am not interested in that period.

sky:

The mere dazzling skills have been separated from the play itself.

We Min Hee:

The whole process is full of revolutionary passion. Although it is a black and white silent film, the red color is visible.

Midnight no one:

The reappearance of history is magnificent, and every victory that is written and shouted now seems to be only living in the present.

Fruit trees:

Classic and romantic. There are not as many experiments with montage as in the director's other works, so perhaps the film's reputation is not as loud as in other works, but the whole film is unified enough and accurate enough to be regarded as a milestone in Bolshevik cinema.

Drizzle

The first Eisenstein film was also a very experimental one. Even now, his various techniques in the film belong to the niche category of very pioneering, with all kinds of metaphors, symbols, and hints. However, this film is still very limited by its time. It can only shoot partial paragraphs of images, which are more like a piece of the short film, and there is almost no rhythm, so it looks quite tired now.

I know a little about her:

The red revolution under black light and shadow was presented in an extremely exaggerated and gorgeous way. What Eisenstein wanted to express with his dazzling montage was no longer the revolution itself but a positive and united spirit. This kind of relish dazzle is a peak that other dramas with empty form and no essence can't reach. If you ask me today, what is red? Then I will tell you that red is the October Revolution, socialism, and the proletariat all over the world. The red blood condensed by their bodies will flow on this earth forever and ever.

Faroe Islander:

This is how red propaganda should be done. Take a look at this propaganda film. It is majestic and impassioned. The people who watch it are so excited that they can't wait to devote themselves to the liberation of mankind immediately. Eisenstein's editing and scheduling skills are genius-level, so many characters in such a big scene are not in any order, and the Soviet Union is so brilliant because of him.
However, the most impressive scene is the Soviet Red Army tearing down the statue of the last tsar. How vigorous it was. How could it be expected that decades later, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, when the porters removed the statue of Lenin due to improper operation, the stone statue was in a different place, and it was in a state of decay and dilapidation? , history, once again reincarnation.

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Extended Reading

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) quotes

  • V.I. Lenin: We have the right to be proud that to us fell the good fortune of beginning the building of the Soviet State and, by doing so, opening a new chapter in the history of the world.

  • V.I. Lenin: Long live the revolutionary soldiers and workers who have overthrown the Monarchy! No support for the Provisional Government! Long live the Socialist Revolution!