Directed by D.W. Griffith
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
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Four "episodes" strung together for a feature, with the common theme of "home", or at least the struggle to find one. In the first and best, a songwriter heads for the big city, leaving behind his mother, girlfriend and her sister, played by the real life Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy. He gets a job as an actor, starts drinking and carousing, breaking his poor mother's heart. He is, however, inspired to write a song about the whole ordeal. The other episodes are more or less forgettable, little parables about trying to build a home against various obstacles. However, there is an interesting epilogue, which uses heavy symbolism to show the struggle of man to overcome his base desires, and the women that fly above him, literally, as angels.
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