The reading with Vertov was interesting. It brought about how powerful the mechanical eye could be in comparison to the human eye. With our eyes, our brain already extracts and throws away what is needed and what is needed. Though, with the mechanical eye, it doesn't have a "system" that enables it to pick and choose what it wants/needs to make something easy to understand. It absorbs everything; creating, honestly, a big jumble of information and confusion. With masses amounts of information, we are able to take out and keep in the things we want without the interference of our mind automatically doing it for us. This way, we are able to create whole new perspectives that wouldn't have been noticed before or thought of.
And this leads us to the next reading over montages.
With this ability, we are- like I said previously- able to create new ways of looking at a certain topic by mixing and mashing up different information put together in what we call montages. This style of film is able to express different types of emotions and scenes to create a different outlook on an objective that intrigues the human mind in a non literal sense.
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