Review of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) by Jonathan I — 03 Jun 2015

Excellent score, acting, and interesting plot. By far one of the better and more entertaining silent films I've seen. That being said this love story is extremely dated and quite frankly downright abusive.

I don't know what kind of message they were trying to send here, but it wasn't very positive. It made women either out to be whores or virgin mary. Meanwhile men can quite literally get away with murder just about and still be the "hero" of the film.

It's ok to choke women in a fit of rage too apparently. While I know they were trying to dramatize things and this was made back in the day when chauvinism and mistresses were still accepted, it took away from the romance part of this movie.

This messed up love story doesn't sit quite well with me. For that reason I can't give it a high rating no matter how well made it was.