The propagandist film Battle ship potemkin is a small account of the socialist revolution of russia. In Watching this film the odessa step montage is the nucleus of the composition, it is very provocative. An intense phsycological reaction towards the images and techniques was Eisentsteins goal. The montage was unprecedented and mastered in terms of composition, rhythm and symbolism. The revolutionsists are protrayed and individualized as weak, helpless figures juxtaposed to the superior masculine collective of soldiers. The soldiers stand high and uniform upon the odessa steps and close in on the chaos and unrest of the working class. structure against confusion.
The counter army are shown as shadows sieging the town, faceless , anonomous and indifferent . The proletariet is often individualized and personalised through close up shots and dramatic body language. This is a silent film so the language and emotion is active within the film techniques and body language.
The montages dischordant rhythm and incoherency gives an emergency to the sequence and heightens the viewers phsycological relationship to the screen. The sequence is shattered, violent and disrupted like the working classes attempts to revolt.
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