Traffic in Souls (1913)

Originally posted to Facebook on 3/16/2016

Update on our chronological movie watching: Last week we sat down to watch Traffic in Souls. I knew vaguely that it was about a prostitution ring, but I wasn't aware how explicit it was. Members of the ring were actively recruiting vulnerable young girls, meeting them as they came off of boats, or elsewhere in the city. After about the first ten minutes, I decided to pull the plug, because there's only so much you can explain to an eight year old. We switched to Fantomas, which we'd planned to start watching the subsequent week. Fantomas is a serial, and is about 300 minutes long in its entirety, so we're watching it over two weekends. To replace Traffic in Souls for 1913 I added Ingeborg Holm, which we'll watch in early April. The updated list is here: https://bit.ly/2lZtfmT