The movie City Lights produced by Charlie Chaplin, is intended to be a comedy that takes place in the early 1930’s and it is a silent film, there are sounds but you can not understand what people are saying. The movie is in black and white, which I think adds a great aspect to the movie over all. The music is used to help the audience understand what the main character is feeling and going through.
In the beginning of the film the scene starts with some political figures giving a speech but when they open their mouths to speak all we can hear as the audience is nonsense, you can not make out what the characters are saying. As the film goes on you start to realize that the main character is not like the other characters. His appearance is poor, he wears old and dirty clothes and does not have many friends. The only friends the tramp has is a blind girl that he met when she was selling flowers and a wealthy man who only notices him when he is drunk.
The main character is always trying to avoid a situation but ends up in a worse situation then before. For instance, he saves a man from drowning himself. The main was tying a rope around his neck that was connected to a rock, the tramp stops the man only to soon discover the rope is around his neck and the rock is now being thrown into the water. We soon discover that the man that was trying to drown himself is going through a divorce, and by the looks of it, it was not his decision. The Tramp accompany his new wealthy friend to dinner where they have a pasta meal. The Tramp soon discovers that he is eating a streamer that fell from the ceiling.
Tramp soon realizes he is in love with this girl and to win her over he takes on the personality of his wealthy friend. He spends time with her, takes her on dates eventually he saves up $100 dollars because he is poor and that is his spending money. However, when the girl tells him she needs money to have eye surgery that is suppose to restore her vison but she cannot afford it. He immediately hands her the $100 without hesitation and hopes that when she sees she will fall in love with him as he has with her.
Over all the movie was easy to follow along without dialog due to the wonderful sound composure that was in it. It was hard at first because I am not used to watching silent films but this film was an easy watch.
Here is the link to the rotten tomatoes review. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/city_lights
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