Saturday July 17, 6:30pm, The Castro, San Francisco
"I know all about this home and its 'blessings'..."
The adolescent daughter of a spineless, ineffectual pharmacist is raped by her father's assistant and gives birth to a child that dies. Thymian (Louise Brooks) is forced from her home, to live in a grimly autocratic school for wayward girls, but flees her sadistic handlers for a life of desperate exploitation.
Based on the novel by Margarete Böhme, Diary of a Lost Girl was the second of two films Brooks made with director G. W. Pabst. Unlike Lulu in Pandora's Box , her character in Diary begins as an innocent, is violated repeatedly and endures her misfortune. Everyone in this film is perversely unpleasant and morally compromised. Even Thymian begs to be shaken from the semi-conscious, passive acceptance of her own deteriorating circumstances. Diary of a Lost Girl reveals the decadence and hypocrisy within a pliant society that fell victim to horrific mass hypnosis and fascist manipulation a short time later.
"I know all about this home and its 'blessings'..."
The adolescent daughter of a spineless, ineffectual pharmacist is raped by her father's assistant and gives birth to a child that dies. Thymian (Louise Brooks) is forced from her home, to live in a grimly autocratic school for wayward girls, but flees her sadistic handlers for a life of desperate exploitation.
Based on the novel by Margarete Böhme, Diary of a Lost Girl was the second of two films Brooks made with director G. W. Pabst. Unlike Lulu in Pandora's Box , her character in Diary begins as an innocent, is violated repeatedly and endures her misfortune. Everyone in this film is perversely unpleasant and morally compromised. Even Thymian begs to be shaken from the semi-conscious, passive acceptance of her own deteriorating circumstances. Diary of a Lost Girl reveals the decadence and hypocrisy within a pliant society that fell victim to horrific mass hypnosis and fascist manipulation a short time later.