8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Way Down East (1920)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.0
Overview
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoBias Dimensions
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive
Overview
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's central conflict, while critiquing societal hypocrisy, ultimately champions traditional moral values, female virtue, and the sanctity of marriage and family as the path to redemption and acceptance for its protagonist.
The movie features traditional casting with a predominantly white cast and no explicit race or gender swaps. Its narrative focuses on a melodrama of individual morality and social judgment, without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating modern DEI themes.
Secondary
The film critiques the hypocrisy and harsh judgment prevalent in a Christian-influenced community, particularly against women. However, it ultimately affirms core Christian virtues like compassion, forgiveness, and charity through its sympathetic portrayal of the protagonist and the benevolent characters who embody these ideals, contrasting them with rigid moralism.
Way Down East is a silent melodrama focused on traditional heterosexual relationships and moral dilemmas. The film does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes, resulting in no direct portrayal or impact on queer identity within its narrative.
Way Down East, a 1920 silent melodrama, does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The story centers on traditional gender roles and societal judgments, with no elements related to transgender identity or experience. Therefore, the film's portrayal is not applicable to the rubric.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1920 film "Way Down East" is a direct adaptation of the 1897 play of the same name. All major characters retain their original genders as established in the source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
The 1920 film "Way Down East" is an adaptation of a 1897 play. All major characters, originally depicted as white in the source material, are portrayed by white actors in the film. There are no instances where a character's established race was changed for the screen adaptation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.3
7.0
Critic Ratings
9.6
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