"Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages" uses an unprecedented editing approach, using four distinct stories to express the theme of paranoia. And these four stories happened in different historical periods, and the time span even exceeds 2000 years. However, unlike people's impressions in the past, DW Griffith's four stories are not told one after another, but they are divided into several small fragments, which are rearranged and appear alternately, only with a scene of a mother shaking her cradle as a transition. However, such an attempt went beyond the era of DW Griffith because of its too advanced film concept, and the film suffered a fiasco at the box office. However, in terms of artistic exploration, the film became a pioneer of multi-segment narrative films. Film history has been given the title of a "brilliant failure"
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"Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages" is undoubtedly the last cry of all the voices and talents of the early independent filmmakers before the financial conglomerates took full control of the film industry
. At the same time, it also creates a world of pictographic language that can be applied everywhere
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