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Summary: A Bit Overrated
Review: "City Lights" is a fine film, but it does not quite rank with Chaplin classics such as "The Gold Rush" and "Modern Times." Though beautifully made, "City Lights" is less amusing when compared to earlier Chaplin efforts like "The Pilgrim" and "The Kid." The narrative flow is a bit sluggish while the supporting performances lack the usual collaborative spark. The film's highlights are the hilarious boxing match and, of course, the justifiably famous ending where the Little Tramp encounters the flower girl after she has regained her sight. It's hard not to be moved by this closing scene. However, it is "Modern Times" -- not "City Lights" -- that endures as Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece.
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Summary: Charlie Chaplin's personal statement about true love.
Review: Chaplin's greatest masterpiece. The Little Tramp meets a blind flower-girl and he treats her in the kindest and gentlest ways he knows. When the Tramp realizes she cannot see, he tries to restore her sight, after reading that there is a cure for blindness in a newspaper. After Chaplin works, fights, and imprisons himself, he meets the girl (after she regained her sight) on a corner, realizing that the money he made for her was well spent. But when the girl sees what her benefactor looks like has to be the most poignant scene ever filmed.
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Summary: True Love Is Blind
Review: One of the greatest films ever made and probably the best ever made by the century's first true star of the cinema, Chaplin. True love could never hurt so good with Chaplin's poignant end scene of redemption for the little tramp that rose above the then new Hollywood ideal of sound. Chaplin treated his famous character with such finese in pantomime that it surpassed many 'talkies'. Piece of Trivia: this film's first big fan was Albert Einstein.
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Summary: SILENT MASTERPIECE OF THE CENTURY
Review: What can I say... CITY LIGHTS made me laugh and cry at the same time. An utterly fascinating piece of work.
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Summary: One of the all time greats
Review: Hilarious from beginning (Chaplin waking up to disrupt the dedication of a new statue) to just about the end (the famous boxing match). And then comes probably the greatest ending ever filmed. In between are Charlie's poignant and funny adventures with a blind flower girl and a rich drunk.
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Summary: You?
Review: Sit through this entire movie; you'll wonder why all these reviews said it was a classic. And then watch the look on the face of the flower girl at the end when she lovingly caresses the tramp's face and asks, "You?" This scene will stop you dead in your tracks, and you will NEVER be the same again. I saw this film once, in 1979, and the effect of that last scene has stayed with me as if I just saw it 10 minutes ago. The actress' face expresses pure love so perfectly, so simply, and so beautifully, that you will, as I have, forget that this was a silent movie. You will, simply, NEVER forget this ending.
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Summary: The best of Chaplin
Review: While not as famous as other Chaplin movies, City Lights combines comedy and tragedy like no other. The theme is simple but carried on with absolute perfection. Laughing is unavoidable. An absolute beauty.
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Summary: Bad. Unfunny. Then, Suddenly, It Gets Brilliant.
Review: A strange film. The comedy is labored, the slapstick is tired, the characterizations are slight, every comic moment is drawn out beyond endurance, the pathos is layered on with a shovel. But then comes the most beautiful and heartbreaking five minutes in cinema. Stick with it until the very end. They make it worth the trip.
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Summary: Blind and Unconditional
Review: This movie, perhaps one of the most romantic movies ever written, displays a kind of love rarely found in the annals of humanity. Indeed, the story revolves around Charlie's attraction to a blind flower girl, but what is more so the story is his deep and personal CONCERN for her welfare. Concern: a theme which can be found in varying degrees in Chaplin's life work and so evident in City Lights. Charlie commits to helping this girl by subjecting himself to many trials and tribulations so that he might earn the money for an operation which will restore her sight. In so doing, he mistakenly ends in jail but not before he can give her the appropriate and legally obtained funds. This movie embodies what true love is: blind and unconditional. With one of the most emotional scenes ever filmed...City Lights ends where love begins.
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Summary: I've made a conquest!
Review: This is surely one of the greatest movies of all time. This 'romantic comedy in pantomime,' shows the sheer genius of Chaplin, as he stars, directs, and composes the musical scores. It is heart-felt from the beginning to the end.
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