Para on man w movie camera lifecycle

Within the lifecycle sequence in the Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov manages to celebrate the modern lifestyle in the USSR in all of the major parts of life. Initially, the camera is shown looking around in a high angle extreme long establishing shot. The camera is personified to be a powerful panopticon and more important or relevant than the hundreds of smaller individuals below. This is used to demonstrate the power of the new technology reflecting constructivism. The Kuleshov effect is used to show the camera looking one way and then the other, first seeing marriage and then divorce. This is a celebration of the development of modern society in which divorce was more possible than ever and ancient traditions had been broken in the new industrial era. Furthermore, Vertov expresses the ability of this new technological breakthrough to have a massive impact on society. 
Vertov also then shows a graphic medium shot of a birth. These images are intercut with shots of the camera as a prop peering over the city and thus are used to make us feel a sense of voyeurism. Highlighted by the brechtian distanciation, the feeling of intrusion on the audience helps to separate us from previous societal norms, such as how births usually take place in private; however, now it has been filmed for everyone to see. This builds towards Vertov’s demonstration of the society as changed by technology and helps to express his modernist ideology.