The Sealed Room (1909) Clip 12 - Tsivian_Khitrova.mp4 0-182.74
12024-10-27T23:59:22+00:00Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb733692plain2024-10-28T00:57:55+00:00entext/plainYuri Tsivian/Daria Khitrovabac65b0132faabaa39d1d97ab053c98751265df9Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb7As many at the time, Griffith was given to joys of Grand-Guignol aesthetics, including the thrill of watching people die. Here, we watch a vengeful King watch his lover and hers suffocate in a room, the door to which he orders to have bricked up (poor bricklayers will be executed too). Crosscut in front of our eyes are moments of lovemaking and bricklaying, desperation and Schadenfreude.
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12024-10-27T07:21:39+00:00Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb7Clip 12. The Sealed Room (1909).1plain2024-10-27T07:21:39+00:00Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb7