The result is a 67-minute fever dream of Socialist Realism on acid. Here is the irony that makes this film fascinating today: The Soviet authorities hated it.
It took a telegram from a fan—the great filmmaker Charlie Chaplin—to save it. Chaplin called it "the greatest sound film ever made."
If you search for “enthusiasm movie” today, you might expect a forgotten 80s comedy or a feel-good indie. Instead, you find one of the most radical, abrasive, and brilliant films ever made. This is not a movie about enthusiasm. It is a movie that is enthusiasm—the violent, industrial, revolutionary kind. By 1931, Vertov was already famous for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), a silent film so energetic it seemed to vibrate off the screen. But Enthusiasm was his first talkie. And he hated how other talkies worked.
But if you have ever found yourself staring at a construction site, hypnotized by the repetitive fall of a pile driver... if you have ever turned up the volume on a washing machine because the spin cycle had a good beat... if you suspect that true passion is often ugly and loud rather than pretty and quiet—then you owe it to yourself to watch Dziga Vertov’s Enthusiasm .
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