Soviet Montage vs Contemporary Film

Contemporary film used Soviet montage to reach different objectives. Soviet montage provides an alternative choice for the directors to change the narrative into a more attractive and more suspense ways. For example thriller film always show montage and it become the hints for audience to know the truth of the film or who is the exact killer in the film. In the beginning credits of the film, will show the montage by following of the crew names.  In an audience perspective, audience will based on the montage and try to relate their assumption to the development of story. This will be an invisible interaction between audience and the film.

The pictures above is choose from the movie "Daybreakers" which is act by Ethan Hawke.This movie is about Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.


Flashback scene of many films choose the used of montage to show the long process of old memories or something that had passed. The used of soviet montage in memory or flashback can avoid the harangue of the film. It can be an advantage for film makers to compress a long period of time to short period of time. This is because montages make the duration of flashback become short, then film makers can have additional duration to have show other scene in the films.