Strike (1925, directed by Sergei Eisenstein ) uses many versions of montage in order to convey its message to the audience.
The type of montage that is present most often is intellectual montage which combines two unrelated images to create a new meaning and this is used when Eisenstein inter cuts images of the government men with animals and this helps the audience to immediately creates a negative connotation in the mind of the audience. For example , at the end of the film , the slaughter of the workers is compared to the slaughter of a cow and this conveys the message that the workers are considered to be less than human.
Right at the beginning of the film Eisenstein uses the tonal method of editing to create an idea of reflection and pensiveness. The workers walk through a puddle on their way to work and this scene is remarkably modern and it shocked me when I first saw it I thought that it was from a modern film and this proves that Eisenstein was ahead of his time in terms of tonal editing and almost a century later.
As Strike is a silent film , metric editing like what is displayed in Whiplash ( Damian Chezelle , 2014) will not have that much of an effect as Strike is a silent film and metric editing first developed after the intoduction of sound and this was only two years after strike was released and this shows how films are shaped by technoogical developments.
Moving on , the scenes where the strikers are being killed by the soldiers is a prime exaple of rythmic montage because it combines the dynamics of the action with the need to tell a continuous story and this also enables the film to tell the stories of multiple characters at once and this gives the audience a sense of the scope of the story and it helps them to empathise with the characters that you see on screen.
I belive that Eisentsien uses all of the editing techniques that were availible to him at the time in order to make us empathise with a wide range of characters and it gives the audience understanding of the events that are happpening on screen and it aids them in making sense of what occured on screen. Additionally , I was shocked about how modern the film looked due to its use of techniques that are commonplace today and I fond myself being absorbed by the story that was being told.