Certainly the most successful silent film by its outspoken pessimist and morality, "Raptors" gives the masterpiece. With an initial duration of more than 9, this fresco was reduced to a period low of 2:15. The reasons for this violent amputation were commercial and we can then imagine what would have been like these scenes censored so what's left of it fills the screen.
cruelly Showing the close relationship between money and the human condition, "The Raptors" bother to make his way through his speech without concession. From the first images, we think of the Rougon-Macquart, simple portrait of men revealing what civilized people hidden by their culture or their well-being.
Even if you feel the high amputation suffered by the film, one feels that Von Stroheim has staked everything in this film, he went for it as if he lived there an episode of his life. His way of filming the faces and bodies ravaged by poor people but also those which we follow the tragic story, demonstrates a deep understanding of Human Nature. The incredible rise covering the entire film takes the viewer into hostile terrain for his own conscience for what he does not want to be knowing he carries the baggage of that forfeiture.
The interplay between the viewer and the film is palpable yet not conscious, she made a few days after visonnage. The ending scene, filming with the same emphasis and tragic fate of two friends become worst enemies, lost in Death Valley, handcuffed, lying on a makeshift redundant, can be placed amongst one of the best scenes of the History of cinema.
indisputable masterpiece, "The Raptors" already contains everything that one has to say on Man, the fictitious value and unnecessary Money as symbol and especially on the critical greed that takes a value of the highest over the film. The mute will never spoken so much in the great fresco picturesque and corrosive.
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