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The Blot (1921)
Weber does not just focus on the poverty stricken family of the professor...
Do not watch this film if you are expecting the same type of story telling that you would get from the same point of view as now. This film definitely shows how the films of today compare story wise but also with camera composition.
Although Weber stated that this movie was about underage teachers and professors of her time, it also focuses on various other key social criticisms that she had. One of these was the difference between the new money and old money. In many of the scenes that are shot back to back, there are comparisons between the idle wealthy that had been born into their money and those that had recently earned their wealth. Weber does well to depict both of these scenarios as in the wrong because there were still people close to them that were suffering from poverty.