People in the outside world praised the films . However , in the Soviet Union , Eisenstein 's focus on structural issues such as camera angles , crowd movements and montage , was not liked by the much of the Soviet film community . The critics of the outside world praised them , but at home , Eisenstein 's focus in these films on structural issues such as camera angles , crowd movements , and montage brought him and like-minded others , such as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko , under fire from the Soviet film community , forcing him to issue public articles of self-criticism and commitments to reform his cinematic visions to conform to the increasingly specific doctrines of socialist realism .