Two halves - funny and dramatic - are evenly combined into one tragicomedy film by Charlie Chaplin.

Two halves - funny and dramatic - are evenly combined into one tragicomedy film by Charlie Chaplin. In this genre, he knew the point, showing the audience something really funny on the background of something truly sad and touching.

"Kid" is Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film, which he created himself, without co-authorship. And no, when you look ridiculous Chaplin, there is no indulgence. No "we will make a discount that this is the 20s", too. Because it's funny. Outside of the political situation, beyond actual humor, and just like that, eternal visual gags with errands, falls, little tricks behind which hide long minutes of rehearsals. And I did not smile because it was so accepted and out of respect for Chaplin. And because it's really funny. You see, there, while Charlie slept and dreamed, a dog flew in. She stood for a couple of seconds, got her share of attention, and flew away. A dog in the costume of an angel. In the film of 1921-year Chaplin thought of such a long-eared dog-angel. I could not help but revise this sketch several times, it incredibly touches and amuses. And after that, do not say that Charles Chaplin - one of the greatest people in the history of cinema.

The dramatic half, of course, already loses its emotionality. If the funny laughs, causing some instinctive reactions, then the sad does not make you sad. And it was on the sad, I already looked with that same indulgence. Because the development of a dramatic line, hand in hand at heart, is still slightly naive. The woman becomes rich and famous and goes to distribute sweets and toys to children in the yard where her son lives under the care of a tramp. And it's kind of touching, but at the same time, too much for the script. Too "this is a coincidence!". At the same time, I understand that Chaplin would not mind if a sympathetic spectator would utter a couple of teardrops, looking at such a life of heroes. And in the preface to the film it was pointed out. I understand this, but, for example, the subtle touchingness of the later film "The Lights of the Big City" seems to me to be submitted much more elegantly. In "Baby", this drama is filed a bit clumsy and straight to the forehead. Abandoned child, juvenile justice, mother, who then rushes children, then suddenly becomes rich. Then still there were no TV series for housewives and these human dramas were touched much more strongly.

And the boy who played in the film, talent.

8 out of 10