That was an excellent one.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

(Flash Review)This is a political power struggle war film around a political uprising in Russia during 1917 which I will avoid regurgitating the historical details of as I'll probably get them wrong as it took some brain power to figure everything out in an old silent film. Ha. Anyway, this echoes many cinematic themes of the more famous Battle of Potemkin (1926). The shot framing was full of great diagonals and great use of black and white contrasts. Probably influenced by the Russian Constructivism art movement that began in 1913. More of a fill geek film to watch these days.

Oktyabr October This is one of the few times in film that the movie and history agree. It is a historically accurate account of the Bolshevik revolution and the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917. Oktyabr is full of symbolism that many will find amusing. For instance, the scene where the tsar walks through the doors and a shot of a peacock flashes on the screen, giving the illusion that the tsar walks into the peacock's butt. This is also a fairly graphic film, showing the deaths of many people. This is comparable to what someone would see if they viewed old World War II footage. The film mainly documents the revolution and makes intellectual connections between people and events in history. Many conclusions can be made about the connections that someone who recognizes the symbolism can make. For being a historical documentary type of movie, it does a good job of telling the story while still providing some interesting parts to keep the film viewer entertained. I felt that this movie gave me a greater insight to what happened in Russia during that time period. If you are interested in Russian history, this is definitely a movie that you want to see.

This film is made in complete over look of the real events of 1928. First of all he has added in more brave, fighting parts to make his idea of the revolution good, making it very unreliable-there were no brave fighting women, they all really went hysterical and had to be protected round the back. This film has been made out of opinion not reliability and history making it unfair if viewers want a good taste of the history. Although there are parts of the story that are true but only because the look and sound perfect for his opinion. This film was made to look good like all films, not to suit reality, therefore again making unreliable and un-true. So to conclude this film uses opinion to make it look good and to make it look how he thought the revolution looked like.

The Film Oktaybr is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,If thats what you can call it. The fact is that the film is historically incorrect as it mentions how organised the Revolutionists were when actually they were very disorganised,Shambolic. The film also shows that hundreds of revolutionist ran towards the Winter Palace firing guns. I don't think so. There were actually a small handful of Bolshevik sailors moving towards the palace but certainly not hundreds. Oktaybr also shows that a lone brave sailor jumped on top of the front gates and threw a grenade over. This is completely incorrect and there is no record of this happening in any historical documents. Another thing is that the director of the film,Sergei M. Eisenstein,was shown the front gates of the Winter Palace where the storming took place but decided that it was not big enough for him to film and therefore chose to shoot the storming elsewhere. Therefore I feel that Oktyabr is historically incorrect and should not be classed as a good version of the Russian revolution because of how fictional it is.