Soviet Concept of Film

In Notes of a Film Director by Sergei Eisenstein, the author states that the Soviet Union and other progressive peoples sought international cooperation and that cinema should belong to everyone. He said that cinema should be used for the achievement of universal peace, solidarity and unity. In his utopian view, Soviet cinema was to champion the highest ideals, "... ascending in spite and in defiance of all those who would drag all the nations of the …

…near mid-point, is when the moment of defeat turns into collective victory. Close-ups are synecdoche such as "the surgeon's pince-nez was made to symbolize their owner: helplessly struggling in seaweeds after sailors threw him overboard," the ability of consciousness to reconstruct (mentally and emotionally) a part from a whole." The treatment of an event is primarily determined by the author's attitudes.... Composition... is the means of expressing the author's attitude and influence on the spectators."