Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

DrWho · 02-24-2010

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

National Film Preservation Board 1996 National Film Registry Award

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Fifteen year old Lucy, the illegitimate daughter of boxer and alcoholic

Battling Burrows, was raised and still lives in the rough and tumble

Lime-house District of East London. She is the lowest of the down

trodden in the neighborhood, often physically and mentally abused,

especially by her father. The one person who treats her with respect

is Chinese immigrant and shop owner Cheng Huan, who can see the

beauty in her humanity. He originally moved to London to spread the

word of Buddhism, however had been caught up in the debauchery

common to the Limehouse before meeting Lucy, who transforms his

life back to what it was. He nurses her after the latest beating by

her father. Despite the purity of his love for her, a relationship of

any kind between the two cannot be endorsed by society because

of differences in age and especially race. When Battling discovers

where his daughter is located, he comes to show the two his

version of what is right.
Written by Huggo

Tannmann · 03-01-2010

I really enjoy the oldies...

Tman

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