Broken Blossoms

Saw Broken Blossoms. It was an almost comically tragic tale of a girl so down-trodden and pathetic that she can no longer smile without the use of two fingers at the corners of her mouth. A Chinese man falls in love with her but alas they are crushed by the cruel world they inhabit. Sentimental and treacly, but still capable of tugging a heart-string, if you let it.