Again a very very brutal poignant storyline from the 1920’s about real working class poor men and women. This film is about sex, rape, marriage, lack of money, and alcoholism plaguing a man who takes it out on his woman and those around him. The film calls out the vices of mankind and throws them back on the screen.
It really puts up society’s truths for everyone to sit through and reflect upon. I commend the silent era for being so brave in a way to put up such profoundly realistic and hard hitting stories that everyone in the audience could relate to and be possibly forced to confront their own inner demons as a result. It's a really great time period for affecting social change through mass media before the Hays Code and moral rigidity of the 1930's sets in and forces films to become escapist not just by the market trends and societal norms but also by law.