Strike

The original title of the film is Stachka.

This movie strikes me (see what I did there) as a quantum leap forward in filmmaking style and technique. Gone are the static shots and plodding pacing of Griffith--the Soviets have arrived. I love Eisenstein's editing style and the ways that he uses new techniques in the filmmaking toolbox to produce emotion and to establish a point of view. In this particular movie, those new techniques sometimes come at the cost of narrative coherence, but it's an easy fault to look past. Also want to shoutout the version I saw, which eschewed a traditional score and instead featured a soundtrack of....I don't know what. It was a soundscape that reminded me of the interlude in Nirvana's "Drain You", which was deeply uncomfortable but fit the film perfectly.