City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

City Lights is my first experience with a Chaplin film, and at long last. In fact, I believe this is just my third full-length silent feature, and it is easily the most emotionally effecting, along with my favorite. (The others are Lang's Metropolis and Keaton's The General, both of which I do love). My only real problem is that some of the gags, mostly near the beginning, were predictable. These were easy to look over due to all of the delightful humor in this masterpiece. It's hard to maintain a straight face throughout this film. I don't know if it's a possibility to not be at least amused by the scene where he chokes on the whistle, interrupts the party, and gets followed by a pack of dogs. Anyway, I read somewhere that Chaplin had considered making City Lights a sound film, due to the silent film seeming to be dead. I think this would have made a huge mistake. Chaplin didn't need words to express his character, or to tell a story, he used actions. The end scene is one of the best I've seen. Chaplin's character is happy to see her again, and happy she can now see. When she first realizes The Little Tramp was the man who she was with, she at first looks bewildered and not certain whether she could accept him for who he is. But then love seems to fill her eyes, and we can tell she accepts him, not caring he is just only a tramp.

Note: this is my first review ever so i apologize if it seems disjointed or confusing. as you can see i am not yet a master writer. also i realize it is short.

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