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If you want to know how powerful, lyrical and emotive silent movies could be in their last days, just see Murnau's "Sunrise" and this absolute masterpiece, "The Wind". In both you quickly forget the absence of sound and come to enjoy it. Without voices' distraction, you're able to full appreciate the beautiful direction and photographic work, as well as Lilian Gish's wonderful interpretation - she should have won the first Oscar for best actress on a tie with Janet Gaynor. 1927 could be the last year for silent movies yet it was the greatest one, so that one wonders along with current reviewers if talkies were not a regress rather than a progress, after all.

I ask that question because I felt very alone when I read all users comments on this show. Very worried, too, because I find it very alarming to see people praising a series for showing deeply unlikeable characters (some even find them sympathetic!), violence and sex. Did Politically Correct so much washed our brains for we like anything made against it, even in this way? Like "The Godfather" and same stuff shows, "Sopranos" trivializes crime, with this easy relativist credo: "They kill, but they're human like us". Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but seeing Tony Soprano pampering his children makes him more disgusting to me. Such a character doesn't merit to have a show of his own. If you want to see real politically-uncorrect characters, unperfect people that sometime behave wrong but stay on the right side, look at "A Touch of Frost" or "Homicide" and give away that overrated show.