"City Lights". The movie title "City Lights" is very good! Why is it called City Lights? The first reaction is that this homeless man is a beam of light, he illuminates the life of a blind woman who buys flowers. If it stops there, this beam of light is too small. Chaplin's silent films are an ingenious combination of tragedy and comedy, where tragedy is implicit and does not directly earn the audience's tears. If we only see the antics of the action, we miss the essence. City Lights! The rest of the city is in stark contrast to Chaplin, which is normal? In my opinion, a hobo with funny behavior. A rich man who wants to commit suicide by jumping into a river is not a normal person whether he is drunk or sober. He has abundant material wealth, but still wants to commit suicide. He spends all day buying intoxicated and paralyzed. After sobering, he becomes indifferent. In fact, he is also indifferent when he is drunk. The housekeeper's attitude towards the homeless person changed with the change of the owner. There were also people in the opening stage who watched the homeless man hang on the sculpture and couldn't get off. The security guard yelled for him to come down. Go and help him down, at this time, the salute music is playing, take care of him! Let me salute mine first! So people saluted the sculpture with a homeless man hanging on it... We saw the smile on the face of the poor homeless man, his kindness, his stupidity, the rich man drinking and being numb, indifferent, and about to commit suicide. What should a normal person be like? I think the most important thing is to have spiritual wealth. What kind of position should material wealth and spiritual wealth be for people? Spiritual wealth is necessary. Today, everyone may agree, but they do not fully understand it, because we may be so-called conceptual understanding, but behavioral lack of understanding. And what about material wealth? Where is it? In the tramp we see the happiness of a man with love and compassion in his heart, who, despite being a pauper, is much happier than the rich man. I think his love and compassion are his treasures. For him, the happiness of helping others has made him ignore the insufficiency of material conditions, and material conditions have become weak necessary conditions. For the city, normal people are its light. Specifically, it is the basic love and compassion of man, and this does not require abundant material conditions as a prerequisite for having this "light".
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