I watched two silent films, one masterpiece and one wretched bore of a film. Nosferatu, which was wonderful and I can’t wait to see it again, and Birth of a Nation, which was, as we all know, full of racism and revisionist history, but was also astoundingly boring. I get that it’s the first big war movie epic, and I suppose it was pretty impressive in that sense, but overall I wasn’t impressed. I will say that the assassination of Lincoln was a really well-done and eery scene. That was probably the only scene I found moving, but it was primarily just because of how creepy it was to see that on screen in such a racist film. Nosferatu was great, though.