Big City Blues

4/18/2026

There's a lot of the Lewis Carroll to this silent drama, and though for a few minutes that intrigues for the remainder of this really quite repetitious twenty minutes I struggled to get to grips with what the purpose of this film is/was/might be. It starts with a gent sitting in the back of what is obviously a police car, and then shifts to a young girl playing with her white rabbit. A young lad appears and begins to chase her through a building that looks to be under construction whilst she chases her pet. Meantime, in the same building a couple of drunks are sleeping off their excesses when another, much older, girl stumbles upon them. One takes a bit of a shine to her and proceeds to chase her throughout the structure with tragic results. Now perhaps the cyclicle nature of the story has