The film "City Lights" is Chaplin's last silent film, but it also symbolizes the highest achievement of Chaplin's film art. At present, the film "City Lights" has been collected by the National Film Protection Agency, indicating that The affirmation and achievement of the artistic value of the film.
"City Lights" is a comedy with a reasonable layout and well-conceived. The film freezes the tramp and the blind girl as the main characters. Because you can't see the tramp, all the beautiful imagination and the details of the wrong and wrong make the world of the blind girl romantic and wonderful, because you can see the blind girl, but the tramp cannot. Without concealing one's true circumstances, the film becomes more warm and suspenseful between this "imagining" and "hiding".
Although the film shows the "sorrow and joy" and "laughs and tears" between the little people at the bottom of the society, it is an excellent comedy. In order to highlight the strong comedy effect, Chaplin started from realistic details and created a lot of jokes. Whether it is the ridiculous and humorous appearance of the tramp on the sculpture, or his crazy behavior such as dancing wildly and eating noodles, it is hilarious. The almost cruel boxing matchup between the big guys is unforgettable for the audience. The strong comedy effect and the various jokes make the comedy effect and artistic achievement of this movie more prominent and noble.
The film is strongly social and critical. In the film, the perseverance of the tramp and the rich man are repeated, tragic and moody, expressing the economic crisis at that time, the upper class of society eased the crisis to the laborers, and occasionally relaxed policies. Chaplin used the encounter between the tramp and the rich man to bring the United States to the United States. Social inequality is artfully expressed.
In addition to the strong sociality, the film is more warm and touching, especially the touching scene at the end. The flower-seller with regained eyes once again meets the extremely downcast tramp. The flower-seller who wants to send the tramp with a flower, when her hands touch the tramp's hands, the familiar feeling makes the flower-seller feel puzzled. "Is that you?" the girl asked. "Yes." The tramp replied timidly, "Can you see it?" The girl replied: "I can see it." After a short conversation, the film stopped abruptly in endless imagination and expectation. In this film Here, Chaplin dedicated his most perfect performance to the audience. It is no wonder that American film historian Louis Lianyokobus also said that talking about Chaplin means talking about movies. No one in the history of American cinema has become such a cherished figure in the world like Chaplin.
