How to evaluate Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible?

The work Ivan the Terrier highlights the performance style of the stage play, the striking photography style of light and shadow, and the performance of the tyrant Ivan IV. The performance style is still in the silent film, which is too exaggerated and dramatic.

But I have to admit that this work is the pinnacle of grand narrative!

Whether it is light and shadow, modeling, composition, it has a great influence on later epic films and biographies. I didn't expect the theme to be centered around nobles and civilians. The scene of the war and the final counter-insurgency are all magnificent and full of solemn feeling.