Man with the movie camera

This film is extremely focused on the new possibilities of cinema ultimately filled with new ideas, stuffed with energy and screaming glimpses of the New Wave. Throughout there are trick-shots, split-screens, stop-motions, slo-mo and speeded up action scenes. The title itself describes what is happening, we watch the cameraman record the images we are presented. The film ultimately depicts a man with his camera tripod rushing about all sorts of scenes to capture his shots. Vertov shows machinery and factories and insights that this is real cinema. Presenting such images he reflects his idea that the mass production and consumption of image is true cinema. The people in the film ride buggies and trains, they are married, give birth, mourn, and do many other human acts in an continuous wave of movement. Ultimately, the pace revolutionized cinema by disrupting the contempt audience unknown to wild movement. The people in this film are seen twirling and dancing yet even without sound you can still hear them. The film’s self-reflexivity gives Vertov the ability to capture life itself in what seems to be a fast-paced nonstop rushing of images to the naked eye. However, for all its glory this is not an image of a fake world, it’s Vertov’s way of showing what the world might be in a different reality. By doing this, Vertov can reach into the future and grasp of what could be by creating ideas within his movies. By doing this his audience as well as the cultures within the movie can elevate themselves to newer heights.