Film · Paramount · 1916
Pass it on
Less Than the Dust
19Leave it.
A white star in brown makeup plays an Indian girl the title already calls nothing.
Take controlThis scores 19. Less Than the Dust cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
The title did the sneering before the picture started. Less Than the Dust. Mary Pickford, a white woman, plays an Indian girl in brown makeup, inside a colonial household that has already priced her at nothing. A house can watch it. I would not call that permission. Say the casting while the title is still up.
I have liked her in other films. Liking her is not a reason to let this name pass as romance. The contempt is printed on the picture. A child does not need that lesson in how cheap a girl can be called. If you are the adult who presses play, you own the correction, because the film is content with the insult.
Journal
Keep Less Than the Dust in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 19. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Sun Never Sets
31 instead of 19
The Sun Never Sets is still a drama film, and it scores 31 instead of 19. What you gain is piety: Awe of a sky, unattached to anything holy.
The eight
- 2Industry
A colonial household is the setting, and no job is the point of it.
- 3Household
The colonial house holds a girl the title has already priced at nothing.
- 1Piety
The title's contempt is never answered by a conscience in the facts.
- 2Courage
The facts show no risk taken for the girl the title has priced away.
- 2Republic
A colonial frame and a sneering title owe this girl no neighbor's duty.
- 2Temperance
The title trains a low rating of her before the story can object.
- 2Truth
Pickford, a white woman, plays an Indian girl in brown makeup.
- 1Stewardship
It leaves a contemptuous title and brown makeup on a white star.
Where to watch
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