Wow what a movie. I haven't seen many silent movies and I think this is my first silent non-horror movie.
It's a romantic comedy about Susie, a simple girl that is in love with her neighbor boy William. But since she can't marry a poor dumb boy she sells her favorite cow so she can pay for his college tuition, of course anonymously. So he goes to college and is a different man when he comes back. He falls in love with a different girl. Will Susie ever end up with him?
This movie is made by D.W. Griffith who is a legend when it comes to silent movies, though I have only seen this movie so I can't say much about him. But he did a great job with this movie. Also the acting was good.
To be honest this movie was much more fun than I expected. In my mind, silent movies were always a little boring and so much to read. But actually, this movie is not boring at all. Storiewise it is really similar to any romantic comedy of today: a girl loves a boy, he loves someone else who isn't good for him.
But Susie is basically the nicest and most honest woman ever, hence the name True Heart Susie. Even when she knows that the wife of William has gone out to a party instead of staying home with her husband, she doesn't tell him because she promised it to the girl.
I really want to mention the ending so here is a
SPOILER WARNING
Since Susie is so nice and also in that day divorce was off the table, of course they had to kill of the bad woman. She ran through the rain, got sick and died shortly after. This came so unexpected I had to talk about it.
SPOILER WARNING OVER
Anyway, all in all I really enjoyed this movie a lot, especially after not thinking I would. I rate this movie 4 ouf of 5 stars.
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