The Man with the Movie Camera

As the title shows, this films was exactly that, a man and his movie camera. Out of all the film I have ever seen, this one ranks up there for one of the most weirdest and most useless. This film has plenty of good use for people of that time and maybe some directors today's see this movie as inspiration, but to me, it was just image after image after image. Once again, I can see this film was maybe a video that new directors can learn of off by maybe using a certain shot or different background, but to make it into an entertainment movie? It just got boring after a while. It was not entertaining to me. I couldn't really tell if there were any characters in it, but there were people. Now I know I sound like the bad guy in this, but this is just what I thought of the film. Going back on how it can be good. As Mr.Isham stated in his handout, this film was an "experimental film" by a man named Dziga Vertov. He was out there trying all these different shots to try to open up the film world. He wanted to show his view on certain things rather than the normal way.