Wondering what would have happened if the story had not been told through comedy.
A homeless, kind-hearted homeless, accidentally met a blind flower girl and rescued a rich man. Later, he was deceived by the rich man four times and was looked down upon by the world, but he did not hesitate to go to cure the flower girl's eyes. Fighting a black fist, he fainted in the ring. Later, he finally got the money from the rich man, but at the cost of his own imprisonment. After he was released from prison, he saw the flower girl who had regained his sight on the street and only asked: "You can see now?"
A while ago, the movie "The Ferryman" was scolded in a mess. I won't comment, but I want to borrow one of the concepts: the ferryman.
This homeless man is a ferryman.
He cured the blind girl, but asked for nothing. He was really happy.
He accompanies her through the most difficult journey, and he never participates in the rest of her life.
This should have been a tearful story.
But Chaplin chose to present it with comedy, which turned the audience's tears into deep thinking.
Personally, I think the effect of transforming a tragic story into a comedy presentation is to deepen the criticism of reality.
Because the tragic nature of the tragedy itself will bring a lot of sadness to the audience, immersed in sadness will often forget the critical nature, the audience will only cry for the ending of the tragedy, but forget how the tragedy was caused.
Comedy maintains a certain level of sobriety and thus the ability to reflect.
The scene at the beginning is very ironic, desecrating the statue and the town hall crowd, which already illustrates the theme - "What era is this?"
A hypocritical, beastly age.
The standard of right or wrong is what they established (catch the homeless), good people go to jail, bad people get away with it.
Say a few details you like.
The homeless man helped the blind girl to support the woolen thread, and accidentally pulled the thread of his own sweater, but he still did not say a word and let his sweater be emptied.
After the homeless handed the money to the blind girl, he said goodbye to him. The blind girl asked, will you be back, right? He said, you may have to leave for a while.
After recognizing the blind girl on the street, the homeless man saw that she had become such a beautiful person. He did not take the initiative to introduce himself, but looked at her indifferently.
In fact, Chaplin was still soft-hearted. The blind girl said to her grandmother when she was sick, "He is a rich man." "
She vaguely hoped that the person who had her eyes healed was a rich man. Although this was all an illusion created by the homeless person, she had to admit that "rich" gave the homeless person a great advantage in the blind girl's heart.
The story ends with two people holding flowers in their hands and looking at each other silently.
In fact, Chaplin couldn't bear to cut the knife. If this knife cuts, life will be hopeless.
Some people say that City Lights is their silent love.
Actually not.
City Lights is just the one who always wears crappy trousers, ducks walks, and takes off his hat to salute at every turn, that man.
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