Man With The Movie Camera Review

Man With The Movie Camera, by Dziga Vertov’ gives a startlingly modern viewpoint in a form of soviet cinema,this film utilizes an eye popping style of rapid editing and incorporates unique styles of other cinematic effects to create a work of stressful power and energy. Film pioneer Dziga Vertov uses all the cinematic techniques such as split screen, slow motion and freeze frames. The way he used these effects at times confused me, and personally these cinematic techniques were overused. With limited storytelling it kinda confused the concept of a “film” to me. In a formatic viewpoint of this film, it did reflect the imperfections and the underreaching havoc that does occur in a soviet state. This film also rejected the outlook of specific sets, or actors and was filmed as almost as a montage of being in a city. Basically all in all this movie is reflecting a story of what it is like to be in a city, not only that it expresses the art of film itself. Overall, I was not really a fan of this film. Going in I generally thought a storyline would be expressed, but the gradual clips and editing, evidently breached confusion for around half of the film.