The sea is rough : a prelude to revolt

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2019)

The sea is rough : the natural image is a prelude to revolt. On the battleship Potemkin the multitude of men on deck finds worms in the rotten meat.
The sailors refuse to shoot who did not want to eat the rotten meat.
In a long field on the deck of the ship there is a revolt against the officers. In the assembly there are subversive shots like the detail of the lower limbs that rise and fall on the stairs.
A sailor,Vakulinchuk, that he was the first to invoke the revolt, is shot by an officer, remains hanging on a rope and a group of officers goes to rescue him. A group of sailors approaches Odessa, bringing even the dying sailor with the inscription "killed for a plate of soup".
The inhabitants of Odessa run down the stairs to see the dead sailor. A very long field with a frame from the top
connects the flow of people on the stairs with the waves of the sea. A young man in a middle field reads a letter that incites the revolt to avenge the sailor and alternates in the assembling moved close-ups. With the motto "All for one and one for all" collective despair becomes union.
In a very long field the crowd of people goes under and over a bridge. Cossacks arrive and shoot men, women and children on the crowd. An alternate montage puts the whole figure of a dead child and the painful first floor of the mother into suffering and tremendous eye contact while the child is trampled.
The mother goes to meet the Cossacks with her dead son in her arms, recalling the image of the piety of the Madonna with Christ but she is also shot. Another mother is killed and the caravan with the little child goes down the stairs.
The city of Odessa is bombed by Potemkin, which tries to stop the massacre. In the darkness the armored Potemkin advances towards a ship sent by the tsar and get ready for the fight.
The fleet sent by the tsar does not open fire and all shout to the brotherhood.
Editing is often subversive and tightened by higher rates and becomes an artistic instrument also close to the functioning of the brain, relating different inserts of images.