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[quote name="fabio"]THIS won 5 Oscars? I drifted away after 10 minutes. Maybe it gets better? Maybe there turns out to be some thematic purpose for the dull awkwardness of actors adding slight exaggerations to their miming on modern cameras rather than the visual flair that good silent movies had? The <i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> effect strikes again: just enough superficial trappings (it's black and white! no one talks! piano!) of a genre people like to pretend they'd be aficionados of in order to score some imaginary culture points. For crying out loud, the fan made <i>Call of Cthulhu</i> movie did a better job recreating silent film![/quote]