Battleship Potemkin essays

Battleship Potemkin essays A movie is something that we look for in need of entertainment, so how is it that a movie can have so much impact on reality? In the film Battleship Potemkin this is a true statement. It is a film constructed during the time of Revolutions in Russia. This film presents many things that are symbolic during this time. The officers and the workers, the rotten meat, along with the tarp, to me, are all symbolic things in the film. During this time Russia had yet to make its leap into modern industrialization world. Under Russias feudal system, serfs were bound to the noble whose land they worked. By the 1820 many Russians believed that serfdom must end. In the Russians eyes it was wrong and it was holding Russia back from advancing economically. The Czars didnt want to free the serfs. By freeing them it would anger the landowners whose support the czars needed. Even if the landowners would get mad freeing the serfs did happen under Alexanders reform. Revolution would happen; it was just a matter of time before it did. On of the first symbolic things I noted in the film were the officers and the workers. In Potemkin, the enlisted man is the hero representing the Worker, suffering unjustly from the savage treatment they receive from the Officers, who represent the Ruling Class. They are forced day in and day out to do the same things. The way they have to live sicken the men on the Battleship Potemkin. The straw that broke the camels back was when a shipment of rotten meat, filled with maggots was delivered. This shows how much the officers care about the soldiers. They think that if they feed them anything the soldiers wouldnt care. For a long time the soldiers didnt care. They ate the rotten meat over and over again but this time they wouldnt go for it. This is also how the Ruling class sees the working class, if they treat them like anything the w ...