"For an invaluable contribution to the fact that cinema has become an art in the twentieth century"

What would have happened to the cinema now, if the world had not recognized a simple slum-lad with such a simple name, Charlie Chaplin. Whatever the modern pictures, if Chaplin did not come into the world of cinema - we will never know, and, frankly speaking, we do not want to know this.

Charlie Chaplin is a man who radically transformed the world of cinema, a man who in many ways we owe the cinema to today. It was he who first created the cinematic image, a man with his character, he created not just a "doll" that can not speak, he created a person with feelings and emotions that can empathize, knows how to be sad, can understand, well, and most importantly - can laugh.

As a rule, comedies are always associated with Chaplin's name, because he, first of all, is a brilliant comedian, and then everything else. But it was not there. Where the place of comedy was put on, there is a place for the real drama itself. "Baby" is the very case. And do not say that "The Kid" - this is a pure drama, by no means, it is rather a tragicomedy, in which two, at that time, almost incompatible genre are so elegantly and skillfully combined.

"Kid" - one of the most difficult paintings of Chaplin. The history of its creation is very fascinating. At the time of filming and editing, Chaplin was getting divorced from his next wife, who as a compensation demanded this particular material. The actor and director had to hang around the country in order to save his offspring. Fortunately, he saved it, and the light saw this great creation of the legendary man.

Probably there was in the era of a little movie so skilful actor and director, which was Chaplin. His "Baby" is a great creation not only of the 30s of the XX century, but also of the entire time of the existence of the cinema. Comede managed to combine a very touching story about the "foundling" with its humorous inserts.

For me personally, "Kid" - it's still a drama, and for this there are objective reasons. The picture tells of the true love between the adopted child and the father, who himself barely making ends meet took the care of the baby. For fifty minutes the director, and he, in combination, the actor shows us the real bright love between father and son. Chaplin dilutes these light feelings with very amusing, and that there are funny, funny insertions from the life of these two vagabonds. The work of the glazier, the scene of the fight - this and many other things do not allow the smile to go away, but it's still a drama.

At the very end, when the "mother" of this child is declared, when the social. service tries to take the kid from the hands of his father, then there is no place for a smile. Here begins the real empathy, the desire to help the protagonist in the fight against this injustice, or else you see any careless mother after five years suddenly you see and thought again, it is asked where these five years when her child grew, began to talk and walk she was, but that's another conversation. Plus, all this happens under almost never stopping the smartest music.

Despite the visual simplicity of Chaplin's paintings, there is such a mysterious and attractive in them. In ten years, this film will be a hundred years, a century, and this movie is still alive. "Kid" is an excellent movie library, which can be reviewed dozens of times, and each time it is viewed as the first. As they say: "All ingenious is simple" - to make sure of this, it is enough to look at this picture, and all the questions themselves will disappear.

Chaplin filmed a movie for the people, the people paid for it with love. And at one time Chaplin was expelled from the United States, let him return there only in 1972 to receive the "Honorary Oscar" - the love for the work of Chaplin in America remained, and it remains to this day throughout the world.

"Kid" is a true masterpiece, a golden classic of world cinema that touches to the depths of the soul, makes you laugh, filling you with warmth and light. Charlie Chaplin is the "little man of the big cinema", to whom modern movies owe a great deal.