i be greatly disappointed in this film after be greatly impress by the powerful and move way down east and the groundbreaking ( though shockingly racist ) birth of a nation . griffith felt that he need to follow the epic birth with something important and but the result be an over produce and pretentious mess . the only sequence which carry any dramatic weight be the modern sequence ( which griffith have originally plan to make up the entire movie and originally title the mother and the law ) and but associate convince him that such a modest project shouldn not follow birth of a nation so griffith pad the project with three other episode which be frankly nonsensical and boring . griffith reputation a one of the most important figure in the evolution of film be well deserve base on such work a judith of bethulia and birth of a nation and break blossom and way down east and but intolerance be clearly an example of a man desperate to top a spectacular success without a cohesive idea of how to go about it .