When you are in a bad mood, it is always right to watch a silent film: no actor will stand up and talk about some principles of life, as if you have seen life through it. Only one comedian did his best to make the audience laugh, and infected the audience with the only soundtrack and physical movements.
Hitchcock said that the emergence of sound films did not actually make any substantial breakthroughs in the film. The fact is that the actors in silent films are also talking, but on the contrary there are richer expressions.
This is the case with Lloyd in the movie, with body language and only lines, full of sympathy for the lower class and indifferent and ruthless criticism of the upper class.
And Lloyd, who was married for money, climbed up the tall building for the stuntman, who is still fleeing from the police. This kind of extension of the last plot in the name of an advertisement seems a bit blunt and thin, but climbing stairs and chasing alternately, there is a lot of horror and jokes. In 1923, the audience would worry about the actors and laugh again and again.
Lloyd's reputation is not as good as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, but the last stage of climbing is enough to overshadow the two masters. I don't feel that the absence of lines has any influence on the film. This is the charm of silent films.
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