Hello everyone! Today, Yuzu Jun brings you a black-and-white silent film, which is a comedy film by Master Chaplin - "Finding the Fairy", the plot of the film is very simple, telling a sad and joyful story between the glassman Charlo (Charles Chaplin) and the abandoned baby (Jackie Coogan). The film is Chaplin's first self-written and self-directed feature film, and it is the release of the film that opens the silent film into the "Chaplin era".
The movie is a very heartwarming comedy. In particular, the child's acting skills are remarkable, very cute, the master's superb acting portrays a father full of affectionate fatherly love, the rich body voice is just right to show the funny and humorous, but also the deep connotation of the film is expressed, when the glassmaker played by Chaplin adopted and raised children to be taken away by the orphanage, the facial expression is real, I believe everyone will be moved by it. Although the film is a comedy, it is actually a tragedy, the director uses joy to contrast the sadness, the sadness blends into the joy, so that the audience can watch the laughter and can also cause people to think deeply, so that the film is full of humanistic feelings.
This reminds me of Stephen Chow's movie "The King of Comedy", which is also an extraordinary story that shows the ordinary of the low-level small people through the movie, which makes people laugh and cry. The sentence of Yin Tianqiu in the film: "In fact, I am an actor", let people remember it vividly.
Well, that's it for today, if you like silent films, I recommend a silent film with a sound directed by Thomas Voly, called "Prague Rhapsody" ("Skrítek"), which depicts the unfortunate experience of an ordinary Czech family in a unique way. Bursting with laughter, surrealism, grotesqueness, fantasy, and is also a very rare masterpiece.
Fragment of Prague Rhapsody