Simply magnificent. This film embodies everything that is grand about silent films; It's touching, warm, cute, funny, and all without the need to rely on cheap, vulgar, dirty humor. The character's personalities come out shining through immediately, a simple gesture, a look, a movement of their hands or bodies is all that is needed to define them. Marion Davis, as Patsy, simply incredible, showing vulnerability, innocence, silliness, and wit. Her mother and sister, simply contemptible, wretched characters, but amusing, particularly the mother.
There's a lot of magic in silent films, magic that often gets lost with dialogue, a language that is universal, it transcends race, sex, time. The subtleness of a movement, of an expression on a face, conveys more emotions than one piece of dialogue ever could.
Highly recommended for even those that are intimidated by silent films. Good silent films, like this one, draw one in and make one forget that one is watching a silent film.
Give silent films a chance.
There's a lot of magic in silent films, magic that often gets lost with dialogue, a language that is universal, it transcends race, sex, time. The subtleness of a movement, of an expression on a face, conveys more emotions than one piece of dialogue ever could.
Highly recommended for even those that are intimidated by silent films. Good silent films, like this one, draw one in and make one forget that one is watching a silent film.
Give silent films a chance.