Film · United Artists · 1931
Pass it on
City Lights
50Watch it awake.
She can see him at last, and the love was built on a man who was never rich.
The review
Chaplin kept this silent on purpose after sound had won, and that stubbornness mattered more to me than the large gross. The tramp loves a blind flower girl and lets her believe he is rich. A millionaire knows him only when drunk. He gets her an operation. Almost no talk, and that is the point. A house can watch it.
I wanted a speech that would fix the lie. None comes. The love was built on a lie about who he is, and the last look only asks whether she can love the man she can now see. Don't answer for her. Kids can sit with a kindness that used the wrong name.
Journal
Keep City Lights in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Secondhand Lions
61 instead of 50
Secondhand Lions is still a comedy film, and it scores 61 instead of 50. What you gain is household: Uncles who accept a charge they did not ask for.
The eight
- 5Industry
The flower girl sells flowers, and he gets her the operation.
- 3Household
No marriage or child; he loves her while passing as a man he is not.
- 5Piety
He gets her the operation and never stops the lie she was given.
- 7Courage
The last look risks the love, which is the thing he would miss.
- 3Republic
A millionaire knows him only when drunk, and sober owes him nothing.
- 4Temperance
The rich man knows him only drunk, and the drink is not put down.
- 7Truth
The love was built on a lie about who he is, and sight is the bill.
- 6Stewardship
She can see, and what remains is whether she can love that man.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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