FILM: Battleship Potemkin Essay

It is certainly true that this movie is one of the greatest silent films of all time. This was recorded in the Soviet Union and it was released on 21 December 1925. Battleship Potemkin was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and it was his second full-length film. The most important actors of this historical drama film are Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov and Beatrice Vitoldi who have an important  role in the movie.

Regarding the content this film presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian Battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers. As it is an historical drama the director did a great job trying to create a captivating conflict,and he he achieve it. The main characters are Grigory Vakulinchuk who was one of the sailors who rebelled, Commander Golikov, Chief Officer Giliarovsky and the woman with the baby carriage. My favourite character is Grigory Vakulinchuk because he finally realized that they were getting a very bad treatment from the captains, and that motivated him to rebel against them with the help of his companions, and that is why they recorded this film.
The conflict is resolved when the sailors of the Potemkin decide to take the battleship out from the port of Odessa to face the fleet of the Tsar. Just when battle seems inevitable, the sailors of the Tsarist squadron refuse to open fire, cheering and shouting to show solidarity with the mutineers and allowing the Potemkin, to pass between their ships.

In terms of the technique I really liked the actors work because as it is a silent film, they try to express their feelings in another way and they did a great job. As I already said it is a silent movie so the conversations aren't very necessary, but in the film we can see little sentences and i think these are really important to undertand better the film. 
Also as this film was recorded in 1925 we can't really see a very good use of the cameras, however i think they did a really good job. They used different angles and perspectives so the film was good detalled, but i have to saw that in my opinion the film was a little bit slow because they spent a lot of time focusing on the details and not in the story.
Furthermore, the music is really important in the silent films because as you don't have conversations that is why the music is the best way to express different feelings, and the music they chose it is really good and reflects very good what the director is trying to express in each scene.
However, in my opinion, not all the scenes portrayed in the film ring true, but this is because as i already sais it is film from 1925 and they obviously didn't have all the resources that nowadays we have. For example there is a scene when the sailors rebel and they start fighting with officers, there you can easily see that they are not really fighting. Also in the scene of the stairs of Odessa a soldiers shoots a women and we can see her eye, this obviously is fake but they did a great job.



Leaving aside this scenes the film in general seems real. Also the film is really good edited and follows clearly what the director is trying to tell. Here they added the sentences that i already said and that are really important for me.

To conclude i would say that i liked the film because it shows an important passage history and in that way i learned more about it. In general i really like historical films, because like that you are able to know what people had to live and how hard it was. And i think this film is in the given list because it is one of the greatest films of all time and i think everyone should watch it.