There is a kind of condescending ridicule in Lubieqian's temperament, but it is never sour, and there is a feeling that it just scratches your heart. With a uniquely nuanced sense of humour, he keenly captures the most dramatic moments of people's encounters, so even when viewed in isolation, each shot is interesting. Of course, in addition to being interesting, there is something vaguely impressing you.
After watching three of Lubitsch's films (Touble in Paradise; Ninotchka; Shop Around the Corner), I was fascinated by him. I looked at the director's chronology and found that his films are really suitable to be translated into particularly vulgar names, such as translating Shop Around the Corner into "pen pal pretty friend", or translating Ninotchka into "love ice beauty", but it seems Playful and cute. If Chaplin offered the possibility of a taste for both the refined and the common, then Lubitsch was a genius in creating the fine art of teasing.
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