This is a masterpiece of filmmaking and really shows you, much like Greed, how the twenties was a period of bold storytelling. It is unthinkable to have a film where the husband tries to strangle his wife to death in the first thirty minutes and then they spend the rest of the film trying to get over it yet this movie does exactly that.
The camera movements are highly compelling as well, using stylistic and technical developments again to push away from the two dimensions. We start see long tracking shots where the camera would move forward while perched on a dolly. We’re even seeing nuanced meaning within camera movements as well in this film. Such as the way the camera follows the husband out of the house into the fields and by the lake to meet his lover. The long slow tracking shot that loses him for a moment reflects the inner progression of the character out of the warmth and comfort of his own marriage and into the wilds of an affair. The storyline is just brutally real and honest.
The Biggest addition from this film toward film language overall are the long tracking shots following the husband. That was really unique for the time and really opened a world of possibilities in how a filmmaker can use the camera's motion to express their character's internal emotional struggle.