Let's take a look at what life was like in the big cities of the Soviet Union in the 1920s? Modern factory machinery, getting married and having children die, sunbathing on the beach when the weather is nice, swimming and trampoline, kids watching juggling with wide-eyed smiles, women doing manicures, and women cutting film and going to the cinema Watching a movie can also see how the movie was shot and cut. It looks so good!
The documentary runs through the theme of "movie-eye", often featuring close-ups of photographic lenses and montages of human eyes juxtaposed, implying that the camera not only sees the world like human eyes, but also sees the world that human eyes can't see - cities tilted, twisted, torn apart; what the bottom of the rails look like when the train whizzes past; people's work and leisure are actually similar to efficient mechanical parts running; the camera and the photographer can be present in a glass of beer... via camera Angles, special effects, and rhythmic montages based on the principles of graphic matching and motion similarity make the world take on a whole new look. Although there is no narrative in the whole film, the random combination of life fragments has become more interesting through the wonderful montage film, and the watchability is actually very strong. When one sees the back-and-forth movement of a woman's manicure knife and the back-and-forth movement of a female film editor's tweezers juxtaposed - alas, how similar! It's all about creating beauty in life! This Vertov really poured his imagination of film language and his views on society into this documentary. It turned out that the Soviet cities of 20 years were not as inferior to capitalist cities as they imagined!
If socialist city propaganda films are shot like that, then it would be great!
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