re: #133 Vicious Babushka

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He’s such a Dipshit.

That quote actually mitigates the idea that Wilson “loved” it — the fact that he acknowledges the truth of the depicted horror, and was saddened by that truth.

Besides that — Birth of a Nation, technically speaking, was the pre-1920 equivalent of something along the lines of Avatar. Cinema wasn’t exactly advanced, and that film must have seemed like sorcery of sorts to audiences at the time. It had to have been almost overwhelming.