Amazing Silent Film

Rating: 8/10 (26 January 2010)

This movie blew me away, I was amazed by how far ahead this movie looked. When this movie was made movie just started to become popular. This movie uses techniques that no one knew about at the time Griffith's idea for this film was incredible. When it zooms on a specific thing with black edges to really get the full emotion.
It is amazing to see a movie about the Civil War from the south perspective. Most films about the Civil War are intended to show how bad the black people were treated. The battle scenes are incredible and look exactly like how some of todays war films are made. When the women is being chased by the black man and jumps off the edge, it makes you shocked and to see how black people were looked at during this period. Also this scene shows two different ideas of what is going on. It shows the black man chasing then jumps to the man looking for her. When Lincoln is shot you really feel like you were there and for people in 1915 they must have been amazed at what they were seeing. At the end when the Ku Klux Klan rides in to the town to stop the black mob, they are portrayed as heroes because they kill the black people trying to hurt them. They take all the weapons away from the blacks and are marched through town.
Although this is a really good film it has some issues. The biggest issue being the length of the film. For a silent film 3 hours is an extremely long time and the beginning of the movie was hard to watch but as the film went on it got better. Also the music doesn't fit very well in certain scenes. This movie is a must see for silent movie fans.