261 of 1001 Movies: Daybreak (1933)

I don't think I've watched such a bleak movie, but if there was to be a movie that would be bleak then it would be a silent movie. Nothing was happy about the early 30's! Or at least not to anyone making movies then unless you were Charlie Chaplin. Daybreak is one of the earliest examples of how China would become prominent in the film scene with the Chinese silent film. What this movie does though is bring the worst of ideas to a girl who may have only lived the small time life.

Summary: Ling Ling is an innocent girl from a fishing village who is off to look for her cousin in the big city of Shanghai. Ling Ling discovers though that the way she was able to live in the fishing village may not be able the way she can live in a huge city full of evil. Ling Ling's life will undergo drastic change as she is raped, abducted into prostitution, but there is hope though for her life to still have escape as the revolution is gearing up, and she wants to become a part of it.