The film is also translated as "the same Party against differences", which is D.W. Griffith's most ambitious work. Influenced by the astonishing hit of "the birth of the Nation", Griffith continued to make a film with a bigger scene and more in-depth content. It took him a year and a half to make a 220-minute blockbuster (the original version was 2 million minutes long) at a production cost of $2 million. Unfortunately, when the film was released in New York in September 1916, it did not receive the expected popularity. There are many reasons for the failure of this film, the main reason is that the story structure adopted by Griffith in this film is too complex, and the directing technique has exceeded the acceptability of the audience at that time. In addition, the theme was too serious, and the arguments for tolerance and anti-violence in it clashed with the high mood of the United States to participate in the war at that time, so it was not generally welcomed. However, people cannot deny that this is an immortal masterpiece in the art of film. The intolerable is made up of four stories from different times: the fall of Babylon, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the religious Holocaust of Saint Bartolomi in France, and the labor conflict in the United States in the early 20th century. Gertrude described his own idea: "the four great cycles are like four rivers, initially scattered."
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