Wow. It takes real imagination, dedication, and plain old balls to execute a movie like this. The novelty of the silence could have come off like a gimmick, but instead it was like seeing a painting that makes liberal use of a long lost color to great effect. I figured I would like this, but I was surprised at how much I liked it. Even the main plot line was a bit predictable, but it almost had to be. If it hadn’t been, it would have felt like cheating.

One thing though, I found it interesting that this movie used a lot of modern directorial concepts – just the camera angles, the editing, etc… these things would not have existed at the time of the movie… and I found myself thinking about this too much. But, maybe that’s just me. If it’d been done in a 1920’s style, that would have stuck-out too, so I suppose I’d rather have it as it was.

I wonder what a 1930’s audience would have thought of this.