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In 1 hour, Matt Rife managed to make almost every offensive joke in the book. He made comments about domestic violence, the elderly, children with special needs, religion, race, school shootings, homosexuality, pedophilia, obesity. I was surprised at first that there was no jokes about suicide, but I just needed to wait until the end. Some of this would have been fine, I guess, if it was at least funny. But no. Then, you know the bar is low when you are pleasantly surprised there were no rape jokes. Great. Also, for a man with 3 sisters, he seems to have no understanding of or respect for women! Matt Rife comes across like a narcissist. Overall would not recommend this to anyone!!

On my continued journey through silent film from the early 20th century, this is my favorrite one yet. I found the changing colors much less distracting, and at points even felt like the colors added to the tone of the scene. I particularly enjoyed the costumes in this film, and found the plot much easier to follow than other films of this category. I enjoyed seeing a strong female character, unlike in 'A Man There Was'. There are both laughs and cries throughout this film, and the ending I thought was beautiful. The title cards consisted of more dialogue than I'd seen in previous films, which helped to make the plot more understandable.

While I personally am still a novice when it comes to early 20th century silent films, this one missed the mark for me. I found the color changing scenes (through no fault of the production team at the time) to be distracting and thought it took away from the overall vibe of the film. I also found the plot difficult to follow, and perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if I had a better understanding of the context in which the film is set. I did, however, enjoy the text included in the film (I think these are called title cards) which helped break up the film into smaller sections and explain some of what was going on during the film.