Manhatta (1921)
7/10
This is one of the earliest films to emphasize that New York City cuts people . . .
7 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
. . . down to the size of ants. Maybe it wasn't that way back in the 1300's. But by the end of World War One, even before the Empire State Building or the World Trade Center were gleams in terrorists' eyes, the scale of Manhattan seemed fiendishly devised to promote amorality, lawlessness and major depression. Were it not for the Rotten Apple and scores of gangster flicks ostensibly set there, Prohibition would have been a smash success, saving the millions of lives lost to drunk driving, wife beating, liver disease, workplace accidents, heart attacks, strokes, malnutrition and extreme poverty brought on by Demon Rum during the past century. So as you watch this travelogue, you can put that into your pipe and soak it.
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