Deleuze said, "Isn’t Chaplin just trying to tell us that we can find a potential Hitler and a potential murderer in everyone?" Killing one person makes you a criminal, killing a million makes you a hero, you have to Say that Verdoux's ethics is correct. Compared to Chaplin's other movies, this one is the most evil, but also the most profound. At the end of the movie, Verdue didn't make any compromises. He loved the most affectionate person in the world.
Friendly Neighbor Big Hippo said: "Read more to make yourself more focused and cold, so as to contempt and reconcile with this world and its mediocrities." I think it is true.
To live affectionately in this unkind world is to use your own way to fight against the world, instead of finally getting material satisfaction and social affirmation from the male partner like the silly white sweet in the movie. Near the end, Verdue refused With the help of such women, he would rather poison the middle-class mentally handicapped women (here we also see Chaplin's patriarchal color). Similarly, at the beginning of the movie, his help (charity) to this woman was not the demon's conscience discovery at a certain moment, it was pure help and absolute giving, which is exactly what Mr. Verdoux did.
The convincing thing about this movie is that it did not deal with the ending like the classic Hollywood. Verdue went to the execution ground without repentance. It has the belief and heroic temperament like a revolutionary, which can be regarded as one of the mainstream Hollywood values. Clear stream. Although the ending was hasty, it was loud and thought-provoking, especially the two conversations between Verdoux and the lawyer and the priest in prison. When we were taught what kind of life is worth in our textbooks when we were young, it is the two classic lines of "How Steel is Made into Li": Do not regret for wasting years, nor shame for inaction. When we grow up, maybe Mr. Verdoux is our real life mentor:
Verdoux: Father, what can I do for you?
Father: No, child, I hope to save you and do my best. I came to hope you can live in harmony with God.
Verdoux: I have always been in harmony with God, and the object of conflict with me is people.
Father: Do you need to confess your sins?
Verdoux: Who knows what sin is? Born as an angel of God falling from heaven, who knows what its mission is? Anyway? What else do you need?
Father: My child, what I have done is to save a soul lost in grief in my meager way. ...May God forgive your soul.
Verdoux: Why not? No matter what, my soul is God's.
Zizek said that the people in the movie experience two deaths, one physical death and one symbolic death. As the flesh, Mr. Verdoux walked to the execution ground, and as the symbol, Verdoux was able to live forever. (Slightly sensational)
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