tearjerker comedy

Cara 2022-03-21 09:01:53

The story tells the story of a poor woman who abandoned her child, picked it up by a homeless man, raised it as an adult, and later found the child's biological mother.

Charlot (Chaplin's Tramp) finds an abandoned baby near a dumpster and adopts him. By the time the child is four or five years old, he is already very sensible. The two father and son co-starred in Double Reed, the son broke the glass, and the father stepped forward to replace the glass to support the family. Charlo takes his "son" to avoid the police, lest he be sent to an orphanage. But the child's mother later had money and offered a reward to retrieve the child. Someone stole the child from Charloh for money, and he searched around and couldn't find it. Weary Charlo came to heaven in a dream. When he woke up, he found that his "son" and his mother were standing in front of him. He finally found happiness.

"Look at life in close-up and life is a tragedy; in long-shot, life is a comedy."

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  • Danielle 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    The first feature film directed by Chaplin is naturally not as good as the later masterpieces "City Lights" and "Modern Times" in terms of laughing point design and rhythm, but the comedy master's most iconic pleasures in hardship and reality criticism are all here. time is manifested. The sensationalism created by montage a hundred years ago is not artificial at all. The gentle display of the little people's joy in the bitterness and the laughter and scolding of the bottom-level father and son all accurately stimulate the lacrimal glands. The kindness of the homeless reflects the indifference of human feelings in a society divided between the rich and the poor. . The last dream is a bit magical, even the heaven in the dream incarnated as an angel can't escape the entanglement with the devil, and the happy ending after waking up may be Chaplin's gentle kindness to the audience in this tragic story.

  • Rowan 2022-04-22 07:01:24

    This film is not as funny as Chaplin's heyday movies, but more of warmth. The little actors' performances are naturally cute, plus points.

The Kid quotes

  • A Tramp: Awkward ass.

  • A Tramp: Put the quarter in the gas meter.