Hello guys, here I am today with this silent comedy drama, a popular one from Chaplin. This movie is in the AFI Films, the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time (we can find in the list a couple more from Chaplin: Modern Times and The Gold Rush).
This movie is about Charlie Chaplin falling in love with a blind girl and all the vicissitudes of his character as a tramp.
It develops an entertaining and touching story, the characters are very very likable and that's something good, the score if pretty good too, using a leitmotif for the blind girl, La Violetera (again the figure of the leitmotif is present, as we were seeing these days in M and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish). The pacing is okey and it manages to get the viewer hooked, especially during the second and third act.
This piece makes a deep depiction of homeless people together with a big contrast between wealth and poverty and how people who have everything are not satisfied with their life. It also shows human wickedness towards the ones who are different and how, in turn, there are still good human beings. Another theme that it touches is the true love concept, a blind girl falls in love with a homeless without knowing his economic status, once he realizes what was going on... the expression on his face remains unchanged.
Leaving everything aside, I have to say that, at the beginning, I couldn't care less about the story, so it started gaining fuel along the minutes (at least for me). The ending is flawless, and that's an aspect of this movie which had a great impact in its time, being that scene, in 1949, considered as "the greatest single piece of acting ever committed to celluloid", by the critic James Agee.
Well, to put and end to this entry, I would encourage you to check this classic silent piece, in case you are up for something easy to watch and entertaining.
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