True Best Movie: Charlie Chaplin
After Billy Wilder’s TBM, here comes Chaplin :)
Usual Best Movie: Modern Times (or The Great Dictator)
True Best Movie: City Lights
I totally understand the importance of Modern Times and The Great Dictator.
They are such an iconic way to frame key chapters of the 20th century history that it’s hard not to look at them.
But City Lights is a far better story in my opinion. There is certainly less commitment and political stance in it but it’s full of incredible ideas. And the end of the movie is one of the most moving that I’ve ever seen…