Let me say something first: Time will make everything fade, and so will movies. Only those that are temporarily forgotten by time are classics, but classics are temporary.
Brief Comments: Some people in modern times are famous and proud of their long shots, but this film from nearly a hundred years ago has become a classic with "fragment shots". I don't know how the film is called, so I gave it a name without authorization, so "just look at the text", this film is composed of scenes that are very fragmented and even less than a minute at all. It uses five short pages to introduce the historical events of the origin of the Russian Revolution in 1905. Among them, the "Stairs of Odessa" has won praises from filmmakers all over the world. Rationally speaking, this is a "technical" film, and it is by no means a simple film. The series of montage techniques that have guided the development of future generations are enough to explain its technical status, and it can be said to be a real "enlightenment". So I am looking at the whole article from the perspective of the 20s of the 21st century. It is not difficult to find that except for the "high difficulty" and "super technology" mentioned before, as a movie, the plot is weak, except for those The film preferences of the ancient times now seem to be too contrived and exaggerated details. Regardless of the logic and sensibility, the promotion of the film will be very abrupt. This may also be because the film is too short and has no space. Moreover, since this film is enlightenment, it also shows that the method of "expressing montage" is not very mature, but there is a textbook meaning in it.
Film critics must look at the age. From this point of view, "Potemkin" has to be on the "God List". In my humble opinion, it is about 6.5 points. Since I rarely comment on such short films, it may be biased by my long-form standards.
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