About Charlie Chaplin
The Kid is a 1921 American a comedy drama film written,produced and directed by starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogen as his adopted son and sidekick. An unwed woman named Edna Purviance leaves a charity hospital carrying her newborn son an artist called Carl Miller, the apparent father, is shown with the woman’s photograph. When it falls into the fireplace, he first picks it up, then throws it back in to burn up.
The woman decides to abandon her son in the back seat of an expensive car with a handwritten note telling the finder to care for and love the baby. However, the car is stolen. When the two thieves discover the child, they leave him on the street. The tramp whom is Charlie Chaplin finds the baby. Objecting at first to take on the responsibility, he eventually softens and names the boy John. Five years pass, and the child becomes the Tramp’s partner in little crime, throwing stones to break windows that the Tramp can then repair. Meanwhile, the woman becomes a wealthy star. She does charity work among the poor to fill the void of her missing child. By chance, mother and child meet, but do not recognize each other.
When the boy becomes sick, a doctor comes to see him. He discovers that the Tramp is not the boy’s father. The Tramp shows him the note left by the mother, but the doctor takes it and notifies the authorities. Two men come to take the boy to an orphanage, but after a fight and a chase, the Tramp regains his boy. When the woman comes back to see how the boy is doing, the doctor tells her what has happened, then shows her the note, which she recognizes.
The fugitives spend the night in a flophouse, but the manager having read of the $1000 reward offered for the child, takes him to the police station to be united with his happy mother. When the Tramp wakes up, he searches frantically for the missing boy, then returns to doze beside the now-locked doorway to their humble home. In his sleep, he enters “Dreamland,” with angels. He is awoken up by a policeman, who places the Tramp in a car and rides with him to a house. When the door opens, the woman and John emerge, reuniting the elated adoptive father and son. The policeman, happy for the family, shakes the Tramp’s hand and leaves, before the woman welcomes the Tramp into her home.
I personally really enjoyed this movie, I’ve never watched a Charlie Chaplin movie but watching this movie was quite entertaining. Although there was no form of dialogue I found myself engaged to the film because of the body language of characters, facial expressions and miming it was easy to understand the plot of the film.
The background and technology of the film were basic because its an old fashioned British film. The cars and cameras for example were very dull, the color black seemed to be the only color used at the time.
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