Keltxangel's reviews

I really enjoyed True Heart Susie, it was an interesting movie that kept my attention the whole time and had me rooting for Susie from beginning to end. In the beginning, I thought it would be a simple love story between Susie and her neighbor, but then the story unravels into a "will they or won't they" kind of a story. My favorite part of the movie is when Susie convinces her aunt that they should sell their cow so that the neighbor can go off to college. It was humbling to see that she sent him the money without ever really telling him that she did it, even when he came over to excitingly tell her that some mysterious person sent him a check with enough money to go to college. As the film goes on, I started to feel sorry for Susie because it seemed like she was a genuine girl who was in love with someone that didn't really even notice her. I feel like a lot of people could identify with her and that is why the film may have become so popular.

This film was very interesting to me because of the topics that it tackles. Lois Weber does a good job of keeping the film an art film in that it is very pleasing to the eye. The film portrays morality as a good thing, yet there is a naked statue in which everyone gets freaked out about. I liked the statue scene because it was something that was not quite expected, yet it fit with the film quite nicely. I think that the naked statue would not be as shocking in today's world, but for the time it was something different and made people really think. Most of the film is also portrayed in a dreamy like state, for example when the preacher is sitting in his chair, one wonders is he dead or is he just taking a nap? Maybe Weber wanted the audience to figure it out for themselves rather than be explicit about it.