"Chicago" Review

Emmie 2022-04-21 09:01:32

Adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, the film contains original musical colors and is an outstanding musical musical. It mainly tells the story of two beautiful women murdering their husbands, but in the 1920s, the Chicago court not only did not sentence them to punishment, but made a lot of hype, and finally became famous. This is a story with a historical prototype. It sounds absurd in today's era of sound laws, but it is the epitome of Chicago's drunkenness and people's pursuit of fame in that era. The jazz color in the film is strong, and the singing and dancing parts are composed of jazz dance, which can be said to contrast the sadness of reality under the cheerful singing and dancing. These songs and dances have strong irony, such as the story of six women in prison, and the lawyers manipulate court trials like puppets. The singing and dancing parts that transcend reality and the real parts that advance the development of the plot are intertwined to form this classic.

All in all, this is a very worthy musical, worthy of its Oscar for Best Picture.

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  • Liz: You know how some people have these little habits that get you down? Like Bernie. Bernie liked to chew gum. No, not chew. POP. So I come home from work one night and I'm real irritated, and I'm looking for a little sympathy. And there's Bernie, lying on the couch, drinking a beer and chewin'. No, not chewin'. POPPIN'. So I said "If you pop that gum one more time..." And he did. So I took the shotgun off the wall and fired two warning shots... into his head.

  • Annie: I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake city about two years ago and he told me he was single and we hit it off right away. So, we started living together. He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink, we'd have dinner. And then I found out. "Single" he told me. Single, my ass. Not only was he married... oh, no, he had six wives. One of those Mormons, you know. So that night, when he came home, I fixed him his drink as usual. You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic.