it take me a while to get to this . in appraise an old movie and there be entertainment and there be the idea preserve in it . this movie may entertain some but more than likely a modern viewer will find the entertainment aspect lacking and and the movie a bit slow move while much like metropolis and nosferatu and the cabinet of dr. caligari . silent movie just proceed at a different pace which i find to be on the irksome side . you will be predict the movie plot point before they arrive . it reputation a a comedy bewilders me and or at least it reception a one ( in the modern era ) do . it value a a product to move idea be intact . the socialism guide every frame make it point clearly and explicitly . really . youre not go to miss the point . and the movie adopt various structural mirroring device that be on the hoary side . time be not kind to certain project . i find myself beg for the long middle portion to speed up or be over with quickly . i felt this be a very average quasi silent movie that be in our hand today because the production design be a little more novel than most . we just love superficiality like that here in the modern world . ( see blade runner and it 387 special edition ) . i say quasi silent because the sound appear in concentrated and intermittent segment .