A Favourite Silent Film

Buster Keaton's “The General” is an attractive movie with its simple story and humorous actions and expressions. However, I prefer the dramatic and dreamlike movie, F.W. Murnau's “Sunrise : Song of Two Humans” fulls of humanity. The story is very simple, but it has power. After I saw this movie, I couldn't stop thinking about some scenes: A woman who loves to work in the city and falls in love with a village man persuades the man to drown his wife, so they can live in the city together. His wife is extremely hilarious to take a vacation with her husband, but she scares and weeps when she find her husband’s abnormal behavior on the boat. When the man looks at his wife's timid and sad face, he could not do it. The man and villagers search the waters for the wife and find her floating in the bulrushes. This breaks his heart. Even though I know the man regrets by his infidelity, I still remember those scenes because they touched me deeply. It is specifically worth mentioning that this silent film seems like a sound film, for its wonderful music makes an emotional atmosphere. When the scene is joyful, you can hear the graceful and light music in the movement. When the scene is frightening, suddenly you can hear terrible and odd sounds. The music is the soul of the film, and it makes this film come alive. This is an awesome film.