The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan (1914)
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.