如果你正在犹豫要不要看，我可以告诉你：这部默片经典值得你花73分钟，去亲眼见证戴米尔如何用极简的布景和对照明光线的精巧控制，把一场关于欲望与背叛的故事拍得比大多数有声片更有张力。适合对早期电影语言好奇、不介意黑白和无声，愿意在简单故事里咂摸人性的观众。戴米尔没靠血腥或尖叫吓人，反倒用几场室内戏的光影和手部特写，把背叛、勒索和道德撕扯拍得步步紧逼。丈夫察觉异常后试图保护妻子，但商人的报复步步紧逼，所有人被拖入一场关于名誉、金钱与阶级的暗流博弈。这片子敢拍跨文化冲突，还带点儿禁忌味道，一百年前真够大胆。这片子特别适合想了解早期电影如何用镜头讲故事的朋友，或者对跨种族伦理冲突有兴趣的历史迷——它不提供答案，只把人性弱点摆在聚光灯下。

　　Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}
　　Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

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