Positive Experience/Entertaining? This is a truly impressive film. I had always heard good things about this movie, but the film largely does live up to the hype.
Technically any good? While I’ve never been a fan of comedians speaking gibberish in a way that it both sounds fun and sounds like another language, the film makes up for this in spades. To be honest, I did find myself laughing at the gibber-speak, but still felt like it wouldn’t be done in a comedy, today.
The acting was a solid as you’d expect–that is to say, not great, but perfectly reasonable, for sure. The story is very solid, following a sort of “prince and pauper” vibe as silent movie comic actor/director/auteur Charlie Chaplin plays both the prince (a very Hitler-esque dictator) and the pauper (a Jewish barber). The setup is clearly absurd, but entirely brilliant. This is seriously amazing film making.
How did it leave me feeling? Seriously moved–there’s a wonderful speech at the end that nearly brought tears to my eyes–it was disturbingly resonant in today’s war-filled culture. I could not believe that something from sixty-eight years ago could still be true–and since it’s about war and profit, how depressing is that? VERY.
Good on you, Mr. Chaplin! It’s a shame you’re dead. You’d be wishing you were, anyway. :(
Final Rating? GSN - Go See Now–this is a cinema classic for a reason. It’s also a perfect double feature with To Be Or Not To Be. TheWife and I both agreed that George W. Bush should be forced to listen to Chaplin’s big speech every morning before breakfast.
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ThePete 12:00 pm 2008-12-03
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Sorry, starting to feel a little tired–good thing the election is the
day after tomorrow!
Still, deep down, anti-women’s-choice people really do feel they have
the right to force women to stay pregnant no matter what. It’s as
though these people think if women stop having babies humanity will
die off or something. Full grown people die every day–some in
unjustified wars based on lies, but these people will be damned before
they let a woman decide what she lets live inside of her.
Women are but holy vessels for God’s life-giving power!
OR they are living, breathing, thinking people with the same rights as
men.
I’m anti-abortion myself, but you’ll note that I am pro-choice.
Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or give me death.”
That was Henry saying “I will kill and/or die for my freedom.”
But I think it is safe to say that Henry wasn’t flippant about killing
a person.
If it’s OK to go over to Iraq to kill for Iraqi freedom, I’d say it’s
just as right to allow a woman to have an abortion if she wants to be
free of health issues, complications and sometimes even death. In
fact, I’d say an abortion is easier to tie to freedom-fighting than an
invasion of Iraq.
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Isn’t it neat how he’s going on and on about all this cool stuff he’s
going to do once he gets into the White House?
Kinda makes you wonder just what he’s been doing all this time he’s
been in government, doesn’t it?
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Am I going too hard on the race thing? Hey, after Obama gets into
office the bad stuff won’t be my people’s fault any more! SWEET!
:P
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That’s what I call a late-term abortion!
I just love the Republican “culture of life” that sends American young
men and women into harms way to kill and be killed. How can you be pro-
life and pro-war at the same time?
If you are only interested in protecting American lives then I think
you’re being pretty lame. That said, why aren’t you pro-Cancer-
research? Cancer is a MUCH bigger threat to American life than
terrorism.
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It’s true, isn’t it?
Come on, name one good black President of the United States!
Betcha can’t!
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Are you like me? Would you have actually voted for McCain in 2000 had
he won the Repub primary if Bush hadn’t? Do you wonder what happened
to that John McCain who ran 8 years ago? I do. I miss that man–he was
a leader with integrity and honor. So what happened?
It seems to me that he made a deal with Bush. “Support me in
everything, vote with me 90% of the time, support the war, vote
against the toture ban, support me in the 2004 debates, as a huge
storm hits New Orleans you are to put celebrating my birthday with me
above any concerns for Katrina victims (McCain brought a cake). Do all
of this and I’ll give you all of my psycho amoral campaign guys so you
can definitely get elected in 2008.”
To which McCain responded, “Yes, Godfather…and may your first child
be a masculine child…”
“Thank you. Now kiss the ring… And pull my finger! Heh-heh-heh!”
All right, so that may not be exactly how the exchange went, but you
have to admit the change from 1999 McCain (honor, real patriotism) to
2008 McCain (says whatever is required to get elected) is pretty
extreme.
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No offense to my dad, but Caucasian men in their 70s are not exactly
known for bring change to entire countries. Especially rich ones with
7 homes.
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