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Making their way through the dirty streets, trying to avoid the places where the police gather, Little Rogue desperately tries to survive in this cruel world, trying to earn something on a piece of bread, trying to keep his modest belongings and protect his collapsing apartment. In this cruel world, the vagabond only remains, that wandering in search of earnings. It has long been time to forget about some relations and friendship, he does not keep hope for it, because you just need to continue to be in this beggarly district where the crime for crime is teeming, and the residents are trying to snatch themselves an extra piece without looking at the humanity.

One day during a morning walk, avoiding dangerous places without causing any inconvenience to anyone, the tramp took out a bull-calf from his cigarette, intending to smoke, and then he noticed on the ground a small bundle resembling a parcel or package with some content, it was newborn baby wrapped in a blanket. Dityo shouted that there was urine, not understanding why his mother left him at birth, the child's body did not yet know that in this life he will be waiting for a lot of unpleasant surprises. Trying to someone, not knowing, in fact, who to return the child to, Charlie Chaplin's hero, realizing that all attempts are futile, takes the poor fellow himself, having started to show really strong feelings towards him.

And so were the weeks, months, years, the child named John, played by the little Jackie Coogen, looking in a black and white and silent frame just brilliant, at such a young age masterfully mastering his facial expressions, feelings, this is a real find from Chaplin. John grew up getting the necessary care, and the most important is the never-ending and only increasing love from Charlie. Already a 5-year-old boy could not imagine another life that would flow outside this shabby apartment, this district, this town, and most importantly, without a father who did absolutely everything for the growing child in his power.

Charlie Chaplin, feeling that he can do other than acting, and also directing, and do it more than just successfully, took his first feature film in 1921. The work on the film was very painstaking, Chaplin nurtured his project like that child himself, and as a result, even numerous difficulties did not prevent the publication of a tape called "The Kid".

This work was successfully received by spectators and critics, it was in demand in cinemas. For Charles Chaplin himself, it was like a reward for all the torments that he was being given by the company under the contract with which the film was made and even former wife Mildred Harris, who was trying to seize the footage already filmed with the help of legal proceedings. Chaplin, in order to calmly engage in films, was forced to hide, so that everything turned out exactly as he himself wished.

Charles Chaplin got a picture that is full of tragedy to the brim, and at times it just reaches its climax and the viewer struggles to keep back tears. The director deliberately brought down two lonely souls who were not needed by anyone in this world, but eventually became one for the other, as a support, assistants capable of adding some minimum amount of good to this world. And fate with every second starts to throw this couple more and more new tests, wanting to test for strength their connecting bridge.

Charlie Chaplin, in addition to providing his offspring with his own quality play, young talent and all the tricks and tricks that he loved, he created a life dramatic story, in the center of which there are weak people who can survive only together, together. This film is about how strong from time to time there can be a human love, if it is trying to stop it, to resist. "The Kid" is an imperishable classic for all time.