Light, sometimes it is not discovered or seen with the eyes, but sometimes it has to be felt with the heart. If the heart is like the sun, it is full of radiance.
Generally speaking, comedies are used to describe the phenomena in life in the form of absurdity and peculiar exaggeration. Although it is comedy, people often see more sadness. Of course, this is about great comedy. It’s different from those comedies that are enjoyed with popcorn and laughs. The core of great comedy is full of helplessness and sadness. Although the ending may be beautiful, that’s not all. It's to make a lie in the guise of "comedy". White lie.
The understanding of the core of comedy, plus the understanding of Chaplin's title, made me very worried, worried that the final ending of this "City Lights" would be a tragedy, a tragedy rendered in the name of comedy. I believe that the vast majority of people think the same thing as I do. If the flower girl knew the true identity of the homeless, would she, like all the money-worshiping women, feel absolutely disgusted and disgusted with the homeless. Such an ending may play a better role in irony. After all, the other side of Chaplin's title of comedy master is the strong voice of his works to social reality.
We have heard too many stories of poor boys being rejected by gold-loving women. Just like in "The Great Gatsby", Gatsby worked hard for his social status for the goddess he longed for, and then he did everything to please the goddess. It was a tragedy of tragic death, he died, for the goddess, and the goddess still worshipped in her extravagant life, she did not shed a single tear for the person who died for her - "He has come a long way Coming to this blue harbour, he must have felt that his dream was so close that he could almost reach it out. What he didn't know was that the dream had already fallen behind him, on the vast expanse of land west of New York. , fell on the endless American wilderness under the dark night." How sad!
The ending of the story of the poor boy who was rejected by the money-loving girl was not a good ending, and it was not what the people liked or liked. If it really is the ending that the flower girl hates the homeless, I think I will pull Chaplin down from the highest hall of comedy in my heart. Because that would be so ruthless. As sad as the ending of The Great Gatsby.
After watching Chaplin's "Modern Times", I felt heartbroken about the encounters of the hero and heroine in it, as if endless tragedies were staged in their lives, and they had nowhere to escape. So when I watched "City Lights", I went to watch the tragedy from the very beginning. Exactly as I thought, the opening scene is that Chaplin plays the tramp lying on the sculpture and sleeping, and he is scolded, accused, and chased away by the people who are holding the ribbon-cutting ceremony under the square stage. Absurd start.
After the beginning of the absurdity, it is the development of the plot. The homeless man who was laughed at by the little boy actually gave the only money he had to a flower girl who didn't know whether he was really blind or false-in fact, what I thought was The flower girl is pretending to be blind, because when she splashes water, she can also splash the homeless. This is a scene that the master satirized, but I was wrong - I gave money to the flower girl, reflecting the kindness of the homeless, Chappe The little characters in Lin's films are all kind and have a pure heart.
The tragic encounters of kind people in an absurd environment are mixed with comedy factors. This is the comedy way of the masters. The whole of the film begins with goodness and ends with goodness. The vagabond kindly gave his remaining money to the flower girl, so there is a story behind helping the flower girl. The vagabond saved the rich man who wanted to commit suicide because of his kindness, so there was a series of consecutive scenes.
Because the rich man was saved, the rich man was very grateful, so he regarded the homeless man as a "friend", took him to eat and drink spicy food, and let him drive his own luxury car. Because of the rich man, the homeless man had a second time to buy and sell flowers of the flower girl. money. The homeless took a sum of money given to him by the rich man and bought two baskets of flowers from the flower girl, which made the flower girl earn living expenses for a few days. The homeless drove the rich man's car to send the flower girl home, because The rich, the homeless have the capital to do such things.
Anyone who has watched the film should feel conflicted about the rich man. Without him, the homeless would have no capital to help the flower girl again and again. He turned his face and didn't recognize anyone, and in the end it was because of him that the homeless suffered the disaster of being imprisoned. It can be said that this means that Xiao He also defeats Xiao He.
As the main character in the film, the rich man is a contradictory existence. It is the existence of the master Chaplin in order to reflect some social phenomena. So whether the flower girl will also appear in such an existence? Before watching the finale, I was Think it will be so. Some of the performances of the flower girl made me worry about the tragic ending - when the homeless drove her back in the rich man's car, when the homeless helped the flower girl again and again, the homeless was in the flower girl's heart When the image of her became taller and more radiant, the homeless person in her heart, the kind person who helped her and she could not see, was a tall, rich and handsome man. The disillusionment where dreams and reality meet is often the evil that inspires human nature the most.
Although this is only a film, I kept thinking during the filming process: Has the tramp ever thought that when the blind girl can see the world, he will lose all this. Maybe he was afraid and he was reluctant, but he was kind, and kindness drove him to do so - kindness made him take the initiative to find a job to make money for the blind girl when he knew that the blind girl was sick; kindness made him almost make money He gave the blind girl no money to support her life; kindness made him risk his life to fight to help the blind girl pay the rent; kindness made him finally give all the 1,000 he took from the rich man to the blind girl, and let the flower girl repair her eyes . Kindness put him in prison, making his already miserable life even more miserable.
The film could have ended when the homeless went to prison, and the film achieved its comedic critical role, but Chaplin also came to a thrilling end - when the regained light had opened a flower shop and lived a prosperous life The living flower girl sells a bunch of flowers to a handsome boy. She thinks of her fantasy "hobo". When she is going to use a flower to kill this disgusting homeless person - I seem to see When it comes to the biggest tragedy, ah, why is there such a scene at the end. After the fright, Chaplin also let go of our vast number of fans - the film ends in the question and answer between the two when the flower girl touches the homeless hand - "Is that you?", "Yes.", "Can you see it?", "I can see it." Simple and warm.
Finally, at the end of the film, the dangling heart was put down. Finally, at the end of the film, I understand that the light of the city is not the city's busy traffic, not the city's neon flashing, not the city's high-rise buildings. The light of the city is the kindness of the tramp, and it is his kindness that allows the flower girl to see the light again. The light of the city is the innocence of the flower girl. It is her innocence. Let us know that the light of kindness does not necessarily need to be seen with the eyes, but can also be felt with the heart.
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