Chaplin's comedy master status is beyond doubt! This drama also uses the form of comedy to show the current situation of the society and the thinking of the creator!
"A picture with a laugh, or maybe with tears" The whole film starts here! Through the birth of a child, it directly focuses on the gap between the rich and the poor in society. The helplessness and confusion of a single mother, and the beautiful garden villa, have a sense of sight of "the wine and meat stink in Zhumen, and the road has frozen bones"!
There are several main characters and key plots in the film, peel off the comedy and check out the message I received from the film!
The child's father, a poor painter, I can imagine a pretentious man, a man who fantasized about being the next Leonardo da Vinci Van Gogh. There are not many pictures of him, but just a few pictures, eyes, and actions, show his selfish side vividly! When he stared at the photo of the heroine, I think he missed it or felt guilty, but the next second, he let the photo be burned! What was burned along with the photos was his responsibility as a husband and a father and a person's most instinctive kindness! He's been a downright selfish person ever since!
The policeman, although he patrols every day, is indifferent to what happens on the street and maintains the surface calm! The police represent the system, and the social system has not responded in a timely and positive manner to the emerging problems of the social status quo. There is even a heart to fuel the flames! Cold to poverty, laughter to wealth!
The staff of the orphanage did not care about the children at the first time, nor did they do any investigations. Wearing the cloak of human rights, doing things against human rights!
The manager of the accommodation, the character and the slogan of his accommodation, really impressed me! The phrase "Managers are not responsible for theft or loss" made me see the collapse of the social order! Even the managers let it happen and dodge all responsibility! Managers don't care about order, they don't care about old and young, but what managers really care about is money and interests!
Through these characters, the movie depicts a society that is collapsing in a small way! A money-oriented society! And the author's thinking about this situation is concentrated in the dream below!
Xun Xian Ji, a dream, only accounts for one-tenth of the content of the film, and it is also the title of the film! It's the author's thinking!
In the dream, everyone is kind and peaceful! Like utopia, like heaven! But at this time, under the circumstance of the manager's negligence, the evil devil took advantage of it! This devil is money and capital! He made the people living in heaven frivolous, greedy, jealous, irritable, hypocritical, lustful... He wanted to destroy the order of heaven! From now on there will be no more heaven, only endless hell!
Perhaps it was Chaplin's kindness. He didn't make the film a complete tragedy. He still gave us kindness and hope! Let us be comforted! It's like "the night gave me black eyes, but I use him to find light"!
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