"Ramona" is an American 17-minute film from 1910, so this one is already over 105 years old. Very impressive. Nobody should be surprised that this is a silent, black-and-white film as this is already from before World War I. The writer and director here is D.W. Griffith the master of American silent film back then, especially when it came to drama. Today, he is not half as known as all the directors who also starred in their own films back then and focused on comedy mostly. In this film here, we have Mary Pickford and a couple more big names from the silent days. It is a story about the discrimination of Indians back then in the United States, an important subject. This is far from a perfect film and the flaws are easy to find (not enough intertitles, overacting, we learn more through the intertitles than through the acting, why does she need to be Indian to be with him if she really loves him?), but compared to other silent films from around that time, it is still really superior and the storytelling aspect is fairly strong and coherent here I must say. Thumbs up for Mr. Griffith once again. He created a decent watch here and I recommend it to silent film lovers.
Review of Ramona
