Man With A Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov's film to me was an exercise and exploration in watching. From the introduction, there is a display of empty movie-theater seats that are soon filled by a huge crowd. This film was very self-conscious of the fact that it was a film.
The camera, no matter what it is filming, always puts a perspective or spin on the movements taking place. Framing immediately changes everything. So no matter how much of the "real" world Vertov shot in this film, the editing and choice of positioning and lighting and creation of montage made it very clear that Dziga Vertov was saying SOMETHING underneath, or on top of, all the seemingly "everyday" shots.
I thought that the film was simply an exercise of this idea of the camera as a altering force on reality. The ideas brought up in class about a "big brother" type of message with all of the eyes seem to me to be products of a post- 1984 era. I could be wrong but I doubt that Vertov created such an encompassing, and grandiose film to achieve just that.
Watching the film, I felt as though something was progressing and building up. There were so many reoccurring themes and symbols that led me to this feeling. However, by the time of the end of the film I was completely lost in the boring excitement of the everyday lives of these people and the man filming them.