Chased from his apartment by a policeman, ne'er do-well Rastus Jones finds refuge in a Chinese laundry, where he wreaks slapstick havoc and has a memorable encounter with an improperly-filled opium pipe. 同样的slapstick在这部里似乎尤为强调brute force,虽然也有机巧的桥段但是violence/brutality被简化成喜剧的问题在这里更突出了。colored people是“非人”的卡通画角色,打不死碾不烂,为了entertain可以忍受各式各样的身体暴力,在当时那种heavily race-coded的环境里无疑是一种negative reinforcement$胶片损毁成实验电影$不太喜欢主角。