Monsieur Verdoux Comments

  • Dahlia 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    The ending reveals ambitions that are not limited to melodrama. Verdue stands on the dock and puts forward all his accusations against this dehumanizing society. Chaplin is a master of comedy and is proficient in filmmaking. All-round talent in every...

  • Dave 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Killing one person is a murderer, killing a million people is a hero, black humor, satire on society and the times. The Great Depression seems to have changed the luck of everything because of the sudden kindness, and ushered in the final fate. Good and evil, whoever judges, is just a cycle of fate, there is a cause and a reward. ps did not recognize that Verdu is Chaplin, ashamed...

  • Brennan 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    The first time I saw him in a non-silent film, it felt very different, lacking a single antics and embodying the comedy in the narrative. Time lags and misunderstandings, as well as the comic effect of partial perspective, always have a long life. For such a ferocious and rebellious character, it is very meaningful and ambiguous with little morality. The Final Judgment is once again sublimated from the narrative level, not only for individuals, but also for the times. Big and small...

  • Pasquale 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    It's really not a piece of Chaplin's later work that can't be called a comedy. As I get older, almost all of my works after 1940 have to show my political inclination, and the Nazis are naturally his main target. "Killing one person is a sinner, and killing a million people is a hero." A work that really made me feel like Chaplin was no longer the 'Little Tramp' with the mustache. The narrative of the film is a bit lengthy, but it can indeed be called a...

  • Eldora 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    He, is no longer the uncontested Charlot, when he appeared on the big screen in a didactic way, people did not feel that he was the once funny Charlot, but a personable and knowledgeable person. The gentleman, he questioned everything in this world in an elderly manner. Only on the boat did I see the smile of the once little tramp. Almost burst into tears. . When the film draws to a close and Verdue goes down the road of death, do we get...

  • Jacklyn 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Eisler came to believe that he and Brecht had radicalized Chaplin, and he regarded, rather grandly, the sharply ironic comic moments in Monsieur Verdoux as evidence of their...

  • Jermaine 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Following the depth, soberness and cynicism of The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux is a hilariously wicked murderous satire with unprecedented moral complexities and philosophical thoughts, which ring of truth till...

  • Dangelo 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Verdue: "In this day and age, idealists are out of place, good and evil, any power over the other and we will be destroyed, there is never too much good, so we don't know what the world looks like, this world is forever Good and evil coexist. In fact, evil is the sun, and we only see the shadow it casts. In times of sin, no one can be called a truly good...

  • Reyes 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Chaplin's most critical one, and he is not the same person in the silent film era, maybe he brought too many personal grudges when making this...

  • Ericka 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    #North Film Festival# The deception is actually not very clever, and the agility in Chaplin's comedies has also been lost, and the narrative skills are single. I don't know what the same story will look like in Orson Welles'...

Extended Reading

Monsieur Verdoux quotes

  • The Girl: That isn't love.

    Henri Verdoux: What is love?

    The Girl: Giving, sacrificing. The same thing a mother feels for her child.

    Henri Verdoux: Did you love that way?

    The Girl: Yes.

    Henri Verdoux: Whom?

    The Girl: My husband.

    Henri Verdoux: [stunned] You're married?

    The Girl: I was. He died while I was in jail.

    Henri Verdoux: [relieved] I see.

  • Henri Verdoux: [quizzing The Girl on her marriage] Tell me about him.

    The Girl: That's a long story. He was wounded in the war. A hopeless invalid.

    Henri Verdoux: An invalid?

    The Girl: That's why I loved him. He needed me, depended on me. He was like a child. But he was more than a child to me. He was a religion, my very breath. I'd have killed for him. No, love is something very real and deep. I know that. However...

    [reaches for the glass of wine]

    Henri Verdoux: Pardon me, I believe there's a little cork in that wine.