THE BOLSHEVIK TRILOGY: Resistance Is Not Futile, But Necessary

In the essay by film historian Amy Sargeant that accompanies Flicker Alley’s pristine new release of three films by Vsevolod Pudovkin dubbed The Bolshevik Trilogy, Sargeant cites a quote by Pudovkin that well summarizes the great Soviet filmmaker’s use of montage: “To show something as everyone sees it is to have accomplished nothing.” Pudovkin explains this concept further in his book Film Technique and Film Acting:

“To show something as everyone sees it is to have accomplished nothing.

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