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Tried to watch Dreyer's early films and felt compelled to cut that journey a little short. Of what I watched, Day of Wrath and The Passion of Joan of Arc were my favorites. The treatment of witchcraft and his continual focus upon satanic elements make Dreyer somewhat unbearable. The Passion of Joan of Arc deals in questions that have a more impressive bearing upon the church than Day of Wrath. Although the question of killing witches has its place, it seems out-dated compared with Joan's dilemma of a military tribunal manipulating her comments upon faith to justify condemnation beyond a status as military enemies. The hypocritical church would overlook its role in the military dialog of punishment.