How Did Sergei Eisenstein A Useful Propaganda Film?

The reason Sergei Eisenstein is such an important figure in the development of the language of cinema is his ability to use montage as a useful propaganda film tool and his theoretical contributions in early Soviet film.
Sergei believed that the meaning of cinema did not lay in the individual shot by itself but the process of editing several shots to form a continuous whole, which became referred to as “montage.” This would make the viewer think about the connection between two unrelated images to form symbols, new thoughts, or metaphors to the scene. Though Sergei tried to create meaning with steady rhythm in his films through the editing and juxtaposition of unrelated theatrical images, his shots did not achieve rhythm but collided together. Which created the montages that are depicted with violence in “Strike.”
Along with his contribution to “intellectual montage” Eisenstein also made contributions in numerous types of conflicts using different editing `techniques such as creating a series of shots that form conflict, collision, and shock to emotionally affect the viewer. By doing this Eisenstein influences the viewer to feel sympathy for the workers and hatred for the corporate business men. An example of creating shock in the movie are shots such as the suicide scene where it has fast cuts and no long takes which leaves the

By using these images, he is creating a contrasting argument for the injustice that the workers are receiving by the higher class. Eisenstein also uses montage as a propaganda film tool by cross-cutting between the murder of the civilians and the cow scene. These two images create a meaning to the audience that the massacre of civilians is more like a defenseless slaughter of the