In any case, it is out of fashion to treat "Battleship Potemkin" as a relic. The genius Eisenstein broke the linearization of time and brought the real world to people in the form of an illusion-montage, as an extra gift from God, people cannot and should not regard it as a passing past.
Regarding the description of the historical event itself, the former is not as memorable as the description of the description. What's the matter? If you watch some pure documentaries, such as "Fahrenheit 911", do you feel this way? I have to admit that Eisenstein's eyes and hands of the artist perfectly woven the strongest stroke of that era. The color of this movie is so strong that it covers the sound of historical archives. Even the person with the most personal memory of that era cannot deny that this movie is one point less than his personal memory.
However, aren't these two memories or experiences contradictory?
Fluttering colorful flags, red blood, doesn't red win the most prominent position in the visual system with its wavelength? These colors can only be expressed in black and white in "Battleship Potemkin". The harsh siren, the noisy human voice, and the noise do not occupy the most prominent position in the auditory system with its frequency? These sounds can only be prompted by subtitles in "Battleship Potemkin".
For a black-and-white film in the silent film era, what is it that reinterprets history and listens to history? What dissected and reconstructed history? Isn't it Eisenstein's great invention montage?
This invention may be worthy of any Nobel Prize, whether it is in the natural sciences or in the humanities and social sciences. Because Eisenstein reconstructed the human feeling.
Before the emergence of montage, humans were burdened with their own vision. After appearing, human beings stand in their own field of vision. Imagine a painting, or a recording, how pale when it shows the Odessa stairs?
The story itself is no longer important, just because the brilliance of montage surpasses its own technical attributes. Yes, technology surpasses technology and rises to art. Then history is more meaningful to survive under the blessing of art.
You have to admit that a genius is someone who gets special abilities from God. Each special ability has opened an era. Genius is lucky. The fortune of human beings is that they have geniuses.
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