little_tippler

I haven't seen Metropolis but it looks amazing! Thanks for that.

I don't know that many silent movies but I do enjoy them. Of course Charlie Chaplin is an easy one to love. I quite like this clip from the film Modern Times.



This movie, 'Sunrise; A Song of Two Humans' is also one of the more interesting silent films I have come across. The story is about a farmer who meets a woman from the city who he falls for, and who then convinces him he must kill his wife to be with her and move to the city. Unusual for the time. Also this film is shot in a very realistic way, in terms of the acting, and has interesting effects.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918