Battleship Potemkin

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2011)

In Battleship Potemkin, the main story behind this is a group of men that are slaves or prisoners that are put to work on this battleship by the crew. The crew however is mistreats the men who aren't high ranks like them by feeding them meat with maggots crawling all over the steak, pretending that you can just brush them off or cook it and be safe. While sailing through the ocean one of the sailors while resting in his hammock one of the officers comes over and starts whipping him, well at this time the sailors have finally had enough of the abuse and mistreatment from the officers and start a mutiny on the ship. During the mutiny, the officers grab the weapons in the lower decks, but the ratio of sailors to officers was at almost a three to one. The sailors out manned the officers and took control of the ship, while taking over the ship they threw the doctor over board, because he was the one claiming that the meat with maggots "is in great shape and can be eaten, just brush the maggots off and cook the meat." Towards the end of the film, the sailors had taken over the ship and fired the big guns on the ship to sound there, victory or "freedom" .The significance of this movie however was that during this time zone the Soviet Union had shortage in film stock. So the director Sergei Einstein would have to be careful with what he shot and at times would have to reuse some older footage in order to get a full length film out of the amount of film stock he was allowed.