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German ExpressionismFilm 18 of 19
Diary of a Lost Girl
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
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G.W. Pabst, 1929, from Margarete Böhme's novel. Louise Brooks is Thymian, sent from a pharmacist's house to a reformatory and then into a brothel, each institution sure it is helping. Brooks does very little in the American sense. That is the performance. Same year as Pandora's Box, different temperature.
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Pabst's distortion is institutional. The reformatory dinner, girls spooning soup in time to a gong, does what a painted corridor did in 1920 with nothing but rhythm and faces.
Wanting punished by institutions. Thymian is seduced, sent away, drilled to a gong, and delivered to a brothel that is kinder than the reformatory. Brooks does almost nothing, and that is the performance. Watch who pays: the girl, and then, in the last reel, the people who sent her.
Thymian, passed from a pharmacist's house to a reformatory to a brothel, each one sure it is helping. Brooks does very little, and that is the performance. Same year as Lulu, colder weather. Watch her at the reformatory table when the gong starts.
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