If "The Great Dictator" is against the concentration of political power, "City Lights" and "Modern Times" are about the erosion of human nature by industrialization and urbanization, then Chaplin's first film, the most prominent, is poverty.
I've never been so deeply aware of the difficulty of the protagonist's life in any of Chaplin's films.
It is different from the later Da Liyi works in that it criticizes the social structure, but the meaning is very, very weak. From the beginning to the end, it mainly revolves around the center of poverty. The close-up of the tattered clothes and furniture makes it impossible for me to watch the movie properly. This is probably the most ripped clothes in a Chaplin movie, especially at the end of Chaplin's dream is more direct, the streets are no longer tattered, the clothes are white, and there are flowers everywhere.
In fact, if the male protagonist dies directly on the side of the road, the artistic effect is better, but the audience will definitely not agree.
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