Pravda

Indeed, this film has a clear ideological structure. Why? Because its authors (the Dziga Vertov Group) held these positions. How is it that they appear so outrageously in the film itself?! Because there is nothing like an "objective" "documentary" when it comes to social issues, and definitely not in the field of a POLITICAL documentary. Let us therefore leave the mentally lagging garbagemen to their waste (and their sweet dream that their ideological standpoint is objective...) and let us enjoy the originality, humor, and freshness with which Godard tried to create a new concept of revolutionary cinema - just as he tried to reveal both sides of the contradiction of social unity in the real world, so he tried to discover their new dialectical unity in the unity of art. To combine two contradictions - image and sound - into a new unity of opposites, a revolutionary film. (2014.01.31)