Intolerance: A Sun Play for the Ages

I don't know what a sun play is, but based on this movie, it is a very long set of moving tableaus. I admire the attempt to take fourth very different stories and draw them together with one theme (hint, the name of the movie), but the cuts are very abrupt and not all the stories are developed as well, as to really cause the audience to emotionally invest themselves in the story. In particular, I didn't care for the Huguenot, nor the Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery story lines. I did enjoy the Balthazar/ Belshazzar story line and think it could have made a very fine movie on it's own. The Raphsode and Mountain Girl were the only two characters that really had much development and drew me in. Every time 'Dear One' was on screen, I wanted to punch myself in the face. Watch this is you are a film student, or want to punish yourself.