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City Lights, Modern Times, the Great Dictator, Limelight, and Monsieur Verdoux all have such perfect endings that if one were to make a list of best endings, they would probably have to handicap him to give others a chance. Even his lower tier efforts like A King in New York end poignantly.
In the end, if you watch, she actually pulls his hand (still entwined with hers) closer to her heart and a smile plays on her lips. The very next scene is the Tramp slowly smiling back and fading out.
I used to think romantic movies from this era were heavy-handed shlockfests. city lights completely changed my opinion on this, and the way Chaplin makes the final scene in that film so poignant and human absolutely proves his reputation as the greatest silent movie auteur
25 gru 2007 · In the end of City Lights, the tramp is presented for who he is. It’s naked self-exposure. All anyone wants, Chaplin tells, is not merely to be loved, but to be loved for being oneself. The sublime final shot takes us to this ontological, base level of humanity—after all this, can the Tramp be accepted as he is?
By the end, she is much more well-off, while the Tramp is in tatters, but when they touch one another's hands they are reminded of the romantic connection they built many months before. The film ends with an image of two people from very different class situations reaching out and feeling connected to one another.
30 kwi 2014 · It’s almost like this film is the period at the end of the story about silent Hollywood. It shows the stunning art of silent narrative for-entertainment filmmaking, of watching two people fall...
19 lis 2024 · Without giving away the ending, I can tell you to expect to have your heart beating out of your chest as you anticipate the film’s romantic climax. You know the ending, but you don’t know the ending, and your heart is beating! Sigh… And it’s absolutely marvelous. Some might argue the film is overly sentimental or even unrealistic.
