Birth of a New Editing Era
 Film rating: 8.5/10
Battleship Potemkin is a well-known Soviet film by Sergei Eisenstein because of it’s Odessa Steps scene as it is one of the most famous montage sequences of all. In fact, some other films had an adaptation of the sequence itself. The famous scene is about protesters being driven away through violence. Large variety of montage techniques were used in the sequence, it involves dramatic cuts that transitions from a wide shot to an extreme close-up, vigorous and graphic cuts were seen, movement and continuity where conveyed on the sequences, and as well as time independence as it stretches the whole scene when in reality it would take a very short time.
Confusion. That’s what I felt as Battleship Potemkin progressed through its sequences. Eisenstein and many other Soviet movie makers are fond of aggressive camera works and sequences. The film’s major stronghold is how it constantly feeds its viewers the curiosity of knowing the story, giving them a focused atmosphere on it, acting like a magnet.
As a pioneer of a new era of film sequencing and editing one must go back through time and witness this film as it has a great influence in modern day films. Putting one’s self in the year of the creation of the film would give a different impact towards the viewers -- just as watching Star Wars on its first release with its fresh graphical editing that no one else had ever seen. So I’m rating this film with a context that I’m at its production year, I would give it an 8.5/10 rating.
