Review of Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) by Megan T — 16 Nov 2010

I'm lucky that D. is equally dorky about movies, even though our tastes don't always overlap. For example, Spaghetti Westerns put me to sleep, but I lap up silent films. He only lasted ten minutes with this one.

'Broken Blossoms' -- among the best I've seen (1919 Griffith with Lillian Gish), and kind of like Huck Finn in its dated racism, yet oddly progressive for the time. Fascinating time capsule.

4/5 (minus a point, because, as with just about every movie from the first decade, it has that quality of kids playing around with a toy camera). 100% on RT.