Monsieur Verdoux Comments

  • Michale 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Chaplin still didn't get used to it very much. He played a serious role and a movie with a lot of dialogue, which weakened his sense of joy a lot. He is the greatest physical...

  • Alysson 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Still satirizing the bourgeoisie, killing people without blinking in order to survive. The second half is a bit pedagogical. At one point, I even hoped that Mr. Verdue escaped legal punishment. Sadness and...

  • Payton 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Based on the idea of ​​Orson Welles, set the pace and too many classic plots. Chaplin's first drama, shot after the Great Trial of World War II, shows how difficult it is for the eloquent woman's friend to kill a person, and the war makes those executioners become leaders and heroes. At the same time, it is so simple and easy to save a person, and the face of a beautiful girl who has only acted in one movie. Three years later, the Archives will have two brushes with...

  • Archibald 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    The men in the literature and art are deeply involved in the stock market and sell themselves to support their families, making people tearful and thought-provoking. Poor Monsieur Verdu, just happened to meet an unliterate woman who called him pigeon with a bloody mouth. This, this is actually a perfect...

  • Adrian 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    #CC#Chaplin's son once said that his father "would read Schopenhauer and Kant to cultivate his sentiments, but pure relaxation came from murder stories." This sentence sums up a "contradiction" well, just like Chaplin Lin said: "Life is mainly composed of contradictions and pain." If the body is the surface form of the will to survive, its screen incarnation "Charlotte" is so tenacious and optimistic, which hides the desire and optimism of director Chaplin in reality. effort. Chaplin bought the...

  • Effie 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Chaplin has always had an advanced dream in his film works. The theme of this film is not out of date at all. How many young men also have such a dream of finding a rich woman and putting her. Killed, and obtained a large number of inheritances, it is not uncommon now. Although this work is not the most classic work of the master, it has always maintained the master's forward-looking view of the society, the inferiority of human nature and the weakest point in the heart, which is reflected in...

  • Blaze 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    "Killing one person is a criminal, killing a million people is an idol" - this thought-provoking reflection, in "The Great Dictator", when Chaplin teased and criticized Fascist Hitler, until the sound film era, The silent film master Chaplin, who has seen him for a long time, also spoke up, still not forgetting to discuss the violence of war and the influence of the times and environment on the individual, which is really worthy of the lifelong achievements of the masters of the previous...

  • Ferne 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    It is undeniable that Zhuo Lao is very suitable for such a strong narrative film, and the delicate presentation method washes away the deliberateness of the silent film era, but it is a pity that the sound technology appeared a little later. But the crappy preaching is always trying to help a lyncher to justify himself, it seems that capitalism devours life with the help of finance is the slaughter, and I, Mr. Verdue, are just trying to survive. Every word is eloquent and eloquent, but even if...

  • Leopold 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    "Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good...

  • Nathaniel 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    I have watched too few of Chaplin's films. Today, I watched "The Gold Rush" and "Mr. Verdus", which are rich and profound. I've placed him above Woody Allen, Spielberg, Coppola, and can be in the first rank with Orwell, Kurosawa, Bergman, and David...

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.