Firm (The Camera in Black and White with Brilliant Thoughts)

Leopoldo Liriano  

Hua 101

                                               The Camera in Black and White with Brilliant Thoughts

To be frank this video was boring to the point I fall asleep, but I did get some important points that made me look back at my computer.  The firm Man with a Movie Camera, portrays dynamic images of life in 1920s Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. The firm shows strong sense of shattering and uncertainty because it swiftly shifts from one subject matter to another in an unclear and messy sort of way, thus challengingly confronting the viewers with the task of finding a common thread that ties them together. I believe Dziga Vertov was brilliant for doing this in the early years of Soviet Cinema. My common thread to the firm was when I continued see a women in white  and others sleeping and after that I saw a black man and white lady putting their index finger in their months to signal to be quiet, but what really got my attention was that a storm appeared non-stopped after those other picture popped up. To my   understanding this is the “silent before the storm,” because the 1920’s was really known has the roaring 20’s.  Vertov twisted an uprising in cinematic art with his ideas of speeding and disordered firms that left some gigantic sized gaps in the film for viewers to fill, but this holes had meaning to a new leaf.

                Vertov film is much like the reality performed in portraits and literature, and should therefore be approached at any time. The society Vertov is trying to portray is that people are living their life the some everyday, they need to change it up, and that’s why other firm makers was so upset with Vertov because of the new idea he was begin of fresh life, rather than the same old thing over and over again.  When the camera eventually takes on a life of its own, as it grows legs, limbs, and begins to walk across the screen. Vertov try to reveal new life to firming and to the world itself.