Battleship Potemkin

Despite the fact that the name of the battleship is hard to pronounce with an english tounge, this film must have been fantastic for the common man. The propoganda pulls at the audiences heart strings with the use of young kids and the ill-fed sailors. I can just imagine how the patriotic people in the audience sympathized with the sailors on the battleship. The site of maggots crawling around on the meat would make the hardest person queeze. The quote in the movie when it says "that meat is not fit for a dog," appeared to be very true. I hope that no soldier serving his/her country has ever had to eat food in that condition when it was supplied by their superiors. Talk about breaking morale, I can't think of any other way to break morale faster, than for officers to give their men a bad meal. This part of the movie had to make anyone that quease at the thought of joining the tsarist army.
You know it was a true propoganda piece when they showed the little boy getting shot. The army then mowed down the mother with the child in her arms. The army was certainly portratyed as heartless monsters. They even killed the new born babies mother. From most peoples' point of view, that sort of action can never be tolerated no matter the reason at the time.
The ending to this film was picture perfect. The entire navy squadron uniting under the red flag was only expected after the audience saw all the atrocities pulled by the Russian military. Any true patriot would have definately supported this film.