Later in Chaplin's career, he began to say goodbye to one of the most classic characters in film history, and his works became more realistic and brutal. These are still continued in this film. After learning about some of Chaplin's legendary career and watching the biographical film "Chaplin" played by Robert Downey Jr., I can feel it when I watch this film again. So, Chaplin expressed some of his own experiences and ideas through the male protagonist Calphiro. Thinking of the end of Chaplin's hero late in his career, there is more sadness.
Calfilo is a late-career comedian who has lost his glory days and is drinking heavily. When he rescued the heroine Serella and began to take care of her, he had a nightmare where he dreamed that his performance was very popular, with applause, but when he realized he was in an empty theater, no one was watching He performed, woke up. And finally, with the help of the heroine, he finally put on a perfect performance in the theater, echoing from beginning to end. Also in a show where Cerella, who plays the dying man, asks Calphiro, who plays the clown, to perform for her in her final moments, and at the end of the film, Calphiro, who has a heart attack, sees Having matured on the stage, the very successful Serella danced confidently and left quietly.
Calfilo and Serella were in the darkest time in their lives before they met. Calfilo helped Serella move towards the light. He knew that the huge contrast between himself and Serella would only make him more and more degenerate. , it will hinder Serella, and his departure is also because of Serella, on the one hand, he has become positive and started to move towards the bright right track.
It's not so much connected to the whole plot of the movie, but it's my favorite and the one that brought me to tears is the performance of Chaplin and Buster Keaton. One played the piano and the other played the violin. In that performance, there were no lines in front and no audience's reaction. It was the form of comedy silent film that the two legends are most familiar with. The two masters still performed so wonderfully that it brought tears to laughter. . After the appearance of sound films, the era belonging to the two masters will eventually pass, and in the 1952 "Stage Spring and Autumn", in the first cooperation between the two most representative silent film comedy masters, it is more like the last. curtain call performance.
(I feel rushed, very unprofessional, please criticize and correct me if I am wrong.)
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