The Kid Comments

  • Hadley 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    9.0/10. ①The heroine was unable to raise the child after being abandoned by her husband, so she had to abandon it. The film tells the touching father-son relationship between the male protagonist of the slum and the abandoned baby and the encounter with the female protagonist who will become a star many years later and want to find a child. ②It's still laughing constantly + tears in laughter. Personally, I like the two paragraphs of children smashing glass, male majoring in glass, and children...

  • Allen 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    In Chaplin's first feature film, there are fewer paragraphs that are funny and embarrassing for people to laugh at, but they do not occupy the main position yet. It cannot be treated as a comedy. However, his kindness and compassion have been fully displayed. My favorite details are kicking the child away to avoid the police after repairing the glass and taking out the last coin from the hands of others in the hotel. |52 minutes...

  • Garland 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    In Chaplin's first feature film (six volumes), he gave up some exaggerated farce in style, and began to add the human touch of laughter and tears into the complete story, making it a very touching tragicomedy. The film interprets the touching story of the homeless Charlie and an outcast. Both Chaplin and Jackie Cowgan, who played the child, have great performances, and the handling of the dream section is...

  • Dorian 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Chaplin's first feature film, pays more attention to the storyline of tears in laughter. The orphan smashed the window, the godfather fixed the window; "boxing" halftime guidance; long-shot close-up of the child's biological mother crying at the first sight; dreaming of jealous fights and waking...

  • Adrien 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    To be honest, I don't quite understand the last dream. Personally, I think it's superfluous like Congjun Ji's dream awakening, but overall it was very difficult to have such a humorous and serious comedy in that era, not only Chapeye. Lin's performance, the cut of the camera and the smoothness of the plot are also very good, and the children's acting skills amaze...

  • Crawford 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    8 points. Imaginative stories and pictures, a near-perfect interpretation of the "father and son" type of story. The most touching thing is the strong father-son friendship in which the two help and support each other in daily life, and the "Yu Xian" at the end is a bit superfluous. Who is this little actor Jackie Coogan? He really stole a lot of limelight from Charles...

  • Kaya 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Children's fantasy, the ending is not sublimated, not as touched as "City...

  • Antonio 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    The dreamland part is very meaningful, because of jealousy, disputes arise and fall back to the world to reunite with the children. It shows an extremely idealized and beautiful father-son relationship, and the child and Chaplin are perfectly...

  • Amelie 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Just over 50 minutes of film, but concentrated a lot of emotion. It reflects the optimism and love of life of the protagonist with humor and wit, and depicts the deep father-son relationship through a large number of details. I was impressed by the combination of Chaplin and Little Boy. Excellent silent...

  • Mackenzie 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    The initial establishment of Chaplin's classic tramp image He began to integrate his understanding of the world into the character "He used a symbolic shot like Jesus carrying the cross to open and end with a playful dream with an angel in it" // The Tramp Performance The human touch is in stark contrast to the cruelty and ruthlessness revealed by the world. Personal morality may be far more pure and beautiful than the morality of the church, country, and society, and has greater personality...

Extended Reading

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  • A Tramp: Put the quarter in the gas meter.

The Kid

Director: Charles Chaplin

Language: None,English Release date: February 6, 1921