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Emil 2022-03-25 09:01:15

If you don't look at the racial issue, I think the story is still very good. There is a very grand feeling. The Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, love, friendship, if these are not in this context, there should be a lot of extra points. But this background is a little worse...beautifying the Ku Klux Klan, prejudice against black people, etc., are all problems. A large number of cross montages, the scenes change a lot, and different meanings are formed by covering methods: telephoto or close-up, etc. Photography has fast-moving photography, and the transitions are also very rich. Fade in and out, circle in circle out are very good. But I may be a little tired today... Silent movies and lyrical background music playing all the time, I still slept for a while...

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  • Mara 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    A bastard and a great epic: First feature-length feature film based on Thomas Dixon's novel and stage play of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes; pioneering classical editing (cross-cut at the end, parallel cut ); Controversy: The era limitations of racist political ideology, and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan is rationalized as an act to restore an upright government. It's dull and ugly.

  • Benedict 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    "There has never been a film that has such a striking contradiction between the revolutionary nature of the technique and the reactionary nature of the content."

The Birth of a Nation quotes

  • intertitle: While youth dances the night away, childhood and old age slumber.

  • intertitle: [Sherman's march] While women and children weep, a great conqueror marches to the sea.