Love like an opera, i don't mean with songs, but for a silent film the music is pretty integral. I mean opera as in brechtian, like the difference between reality and truth.. big ideas sure, i can't really grasp them when other people talk about them, because most theorists make it all too complicated. Realism is a reliance on how the world looks and acts aesthetically. Truth is how the world is, with truth it doesnt matter if people fly or animals talk or any number of unrealistic events happen, because it has a 'truth'.

Sunrise has a truth, and it condenses reality, makes life move faster, is totally aware that it is a film, reveals itself as scenes, as snippets of life, and is possibly the most perfect silent film i've ever seen. Admittedly i have just watched it, and so am biased, i'm still on a high from it. But this is the 3rd time i've seen it and i feel stronger about it upon each viewing. It'll last like all great art does.

Directed by F W Murnau, 1928.