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Man with a movie camera essay

Discuss how far your chosen films reflect aesthetic qualities associated with a particular film movement.  In both apprapodenise and man with a movie camera there are asthetic qualities that reflect different film movements and in this essay i will explore a few.  Roughly a third of the way through the film, Vertov uses a sequence involving trains and trams in order to celebrate communistic expansion and innovation in the Soviet Union. He praises this new technological advance via the use of muscular film making. The use of trains is a link to the lumiere brothers and how they presented real life through their work  and experimentation of different individual elements in film. This shows Vertov to be darring and a leader in the way of soviet montage. One of the ways this is most prevalent is through the use of split screen and a canted camera angle. This is reflective of the social hierarchy as the rich on the right get richer whilst the poor on the left get poorer. Vertov was on