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Broken Blossoms
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"Unforgettable. One of those lucky congruences of talent and timing." -Richard ShickeI, D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London.
Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayaI of a Chinese man who traveIs to EngIand to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is LilIian Gish who illuminates the screen. ln this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-oId street urchin who longs to escape her miserabIe existence. Emotionally scarred by the torment and neglect of her abusive father she collapses in the shop of the loneIy and disilIusioned "yeIIow man." As he tenderIy nurtures her back to health, an unspoken romance flowers between them, awakening in each of them feeIings of Iove they thought themseIves forever denied.
In some ways, Broken Blossoms was Griffith's response to critics of The Birth Of A Nation, an effort to clear himself of Iingering charges of racism. However, cinematic convention forbade physical intimacy between the two races. With this in mind, Griffith took what might have been a bold interracial romance and transformed the two races.
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