This movie was pretty sweet. When I read that this was an experimental film, I was wondering if this was going to be a trip. Almost literally, it was. It shows hustle and bustle of natural Odessa and nothing seems scripted.
No relatable characters, no dialogue and no story. The only recurring character that we identify is the cameraman who is all over the city watching with his camera.
By comparing this to Eisenstenin, THEY ARE SO DIFFERENT! Eisenstein has identifiable charcters. At least, people set more into categories: Sailors, citizens, admirals etc. But 'movie camera' has people are over the place that only occur at once.
My favorite part in the film was the bustle music playing until it stops suddenly and plays that eerie ambiance which escapes back into more business.
But I think that maybe in the middle it starts to drag on a bit. The repeated imagery gets at tad repetitive and I lost attention.
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What makes the film even wilder is that the shots are interspersed among several different locations. In addition to Odessa, you're also seeing quite a bit of Moscow in the film (that's the Bolshoi Theater that Vertov "divides in half" a couple of times). I hope we can talk a bit tomorrow about what he might be trying to do with the varied settings being presented as though they're all more or less part of one location.
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