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trolley freak
3Jan12
The fate of leading lady Ruan Lingyu overshadows this quite exceptional and beautiful silent melodrama from China. She magnificently portrays a young woman working as a prostitute and trying to support herself and her young son. Unable to escape the clutches of a loathsome gambler, she is eventually forced into an act of impulsive violence... Just a year later Ruan was dead by her own hand at the tender age of 24....
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ruby stevens
29Dec11
http://www.archive.org/details/thegoddess <--what could have been mere preachy melodrama is elevated by lovely cinematography and the remarkable performance of ruan lingyu, a premier silent actress in her penultimate film, as a woman fighting society's scorn to make a better life for her small son. tragically, the film mirrored her chaotic private life, which fueled scandal sheets and led to her suicide at age 24
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VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS
27Jan11
Nunca dejara de sorprender el hecho de que, a pesar de ser tanto la china como la méxicana culturas en apariencia tan lejanas una de la otra, el cine de ambas naciones guarda tantos puntos en comun. Es el caso de esta cinta, centrada en una joven mujer quien se prostituye de noche para cuidar amorosamente de su hijo de dia, cuyo proposito es de hacer de él un hombre respetable, mientras tiene que lidiar con escoria humana, entre esta un hampon que quiere ser su padrote. Las similitudes con Salon México de Emilio Fernandez son evidentes, pero sobre todo, hay que destacar su estupenda fotografia y el hecho de poder apreciar un (buen) ejemplo tan antiguo de esta excepcional cinematografia.
