Sadur: "The kind of perfection that "Battleship Potemkin" has is extremely rare in ordinary outstanding works." The perfection of the film is first manifested in the perfection of the play. It is structured in the format of the tragedy of the ancient Greek curtain of kings and is divided into five parts, namely the man and the maggots, the scene on the rear deck, avenging the dead, the massacre of the steps in Odessa, and the encounter with the fleet, each scene is run through strong contradictions conflict. This dramatic structure, with the juxtaposition of action and reaction, produces a strong on-screen contrast and has a huge emotional impact. The use of montage in this film has reached the level of perfection. Among them, the "Odessa Staircase" is constantly quoted and analyzed. As a classic in the classics, it only takes two minutes to complete the ladder. The director greatly expanded its scope. Time and space, with more than 150 shots, for more than 6 minutes, showed a brutal and inhumane thrilling massacre. Another example of a memorable montage is a brief shot of three marble lions on the screen, the first lion sleeping, the second awake, and the third standing up and looking alone, each shot "content neutral". ', but their sum, through the hallucination of a lion going from sleep to leap, gave rise to the idea that the Russian people were rebelling against the brutal atrocities of the tsarist government.
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