Let's be realistic.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

"The Wind" is acknowledged to be a silent classic and gets nothing but excellent ratings by IMDb reviewers. Lillian Gish was a film pioneer and Victor Sjostrom is a giant in Swedish cinema. But accomplishment, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and I have to say I didn't care for "The Wind". Apart from the fact that there are a great many holes in the plot, I thought Ms. Gish's performance is overrated and I didn't appreciate her pop-eyed, overwrought portrayal of Letty, who arrives in the middle of nowhere flat broke. I thought the final sequences in the cabin with the wind howling were overdone, but I thought the best part of the picture was the sensitive portrayal by Lars Hanson of the farmhand she 'marries' but lives a platonic relationship in his own house. The plot didn't work for me and I felt it was simplistic and far-fetched. And, I know, don't tell me - It's a Silent Classic.

Strange as it may seem, I think this film is better because it is silent. We can easily fit in the sound effects in our minds. Mr. Sjostrom made absolutely sure of that. And Sjostrom worked in the outdoors so often. "The Outlaw and His Wife" pops into mind. The plot, as desperate as it is, could hold up to any amount of over-acting and the lack of explicit sound simply draws us farther and farther into the film. I guess I wouldn't mind an independent score but I've seen the film both in Paris at the Cinematheque and here in the States a few years back and I didn't miss a thing - I think. Highly recommended! Curtis Stotlar

As the movie name suggests, the Wind plays a very important role in this silent Western. The Wind can be taken as a symbolic depiction of the mood and the mind of the lead actress. The story of an Eastern lady coming to the old, wild and windy west where the nearest neighbors are about 15 miles away. She has to adjust not only with the un favourable windy weather but also with the unfavourable nature of people around. I would call this a path breaking ahead of it's time flick with a very sophisticated message for that time. Add to it, some genuinely good camera-work, and this movie is an instant classic. For Western fans - This is not a typical western, the only action you will get is the turbulent mind of the actress trying to adjust with the turbulence around her.Lillian Gish was the silent movie superstar and also has the distinction of working for the maximum number of years in movies. She is what I would like to call an ice cold beauty. She is the soul of this film and has depicted the emotions pretty well. I would suggest everyone to watch this movie once.Rating : 8/10

"The Wind" (1928) from Victor Sjostrom is in itself of course an experiment out of date, but it is still too as if it was a documentary reconstructed likewise such as a familial story of a given moment in a critical situation, as it was needed in dramatic terms and features. Even though, artistically helped almost as apparently the lack of sound did it, as it was so melodic and plastic in itself, as resulting like its true remembering simulated presence in such a mental fake perceptive effect on the viewers. The big hat on the head of Letty, Lillian Gish as in a storming single young lady, inside a train talking with a heart's conqueror, when listen him and she was eating an apple, it gives the style of Sjostrom - known as Seastrom - as director here. Meanwhile she observes the sands pushed by the wind against a small window inside the carriage, which is also scaring even the lantern's man there, all them shacked by the train in movement, till the next station on the desert where her cousin's waiting for her, outside the desert station. For that, as guarantee of its plasticity, at the bottom of each particular scene, as one of which I prefer above all, as such of the kind with the enormous inclined white horse moving slowly, like if it was though inside a set of clouds as fake snows, overexposed on the dark sky of the sequence of such an unnatural and creative shots, announcing by that the surge of a storm nearby. Surrounding people and particularly this woman coming from another state as Virginia, who was the character of a love affair in a small town, not far away of the Mojave desert.Such an artifact as though a silent movie as this one made with the nature like an effect, calling for the myth and eventually reversing reality by chance, but universalizing by such measure and dramatic turmoil for ever the cupidity and jealousy of the main characters, instead as made it with still worst consequences for them. I don't know if the theme of this movie is considered or not being with much or little contemporaneity, but it is with enough accuracy for the present times. When in such a kind of circumstances about death penalty as matter of principles are still so much neglected by this way of conception of life, after such a turmoil in this track. Thus, Victor Sjostrom in this movie made long time ago, had his own solution, if it was one well expressed for the case in that amoral fiction - with the enormous providence of the natural event of human kinds facing themselves, before their own roots elsewhere, when the truth is hidden - like such it was there in that story. After a tornado, which obliged people hiding from it at a concealed place : in a kind of shelter in underground during the ball, as in grouts of Middle Age, like it seems now when bunkers were at the time not even an idea out of the market. However, this story it is still important for the conservation of the recent past of human beings as old relatives, when feelings were at stake during a storm like this one, that we saw with a fantastic accuracy and sensitivity. It works. When cattlemen, for fighting starvation because the lack of water, occasionally are going in group, keeping wild horses escaped from the Northern wind, because the government pays them three dollars by each horse sold for surviving from the destruction of goods, after the windy storm and unbreathable sands.