... I will talk about another movie. Chaplin’s movie, magically called "City Lights," has already received unconditional applause from Chinese critics; in fact, written praise is just evidence of our blameless telecommunications and mail services, not Personal, casual behavior. Who dares deny that Charlie Chaplin is one of the most sure gods in the mythology of our time, Kiriko [illustration] unchanging nightmare, scar face al[illustration] hot machine gun, still limited but not affected The restricted universe, Greta Garbo's high shoulders, a colleague of Gandhi's blindfold? Who would dare to deny that his latest "Sentimental Comedy" was amazing beforehand? In fact, in my opinion, this movie with an enthusiastic audience, this movie starring and written by the excellent screenwriter of "Gold Digger", is just a lifeless, sentimental film made up of a few small things. . Some of the plots are novel; some plots are copied, like a trash picker who is mechanically happy when facing a rich man who wants to provide him with relief items (later found to have been cheated), that is, he is happy with the past "Troy Helen" A copy of the Trojan garbage collector and the Greek Trojan horse in "Private Life". You can also raise a more general objection to "City Lights." Its lack of reality can only be compared with its lack of unreality that is equally disappointing. There are real movies-"The Man Who Reports Himself", "The Country Guy", "The World Is Walking", to "Diagonal Melody" -; there are also movies that are deliberately unreal; individuals like Bozaqi [illustration] The supreme movies include Harry Langdon [illustration] movies, Buster Keaton [illustration] movies, and Eisenstein's movies. Chaplin's early funny tactics belonged to the second category of movies mentioned above. These techniques of his undoubtedly relied on superficial shooting, fast action and the actors' crappy fake beards, exaggerated wigs and gorgeous tuxedos. "City Lights" did not reach this reality and became unreliable. Except for the beautiful and wise blind woman, except for Chaplin himself, who is always in disguise and insignificant, all the characters are rough and mediocre. Its messy plot is due to the chaos of integrated technology twenty years ago. I know that using archaic words and being out of fashion are also literary genres, but deliberate use of them and bad endings are two different things. I hope my opinion is unreasonable-it has been so many times...
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