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Limelight. Chaplin keeps reminding us of his earlier films -- not of the little tramp he used to play but of the range of emotions his skilled movements could bring forth and of the warmth in his eyes. Yet this recently re-released 1952 film is a disappointment because it is so insistently verbal and thus undercuts the very basis of Chaplin...
...always forgot what time of the day it was. In fact, what time of the day it might possibly be, whenever the summer warmth magically changed, into this special sort of rain. Oh; and if the sun shone down just this way, not sparkling in that fertile vernal brightness, but muted, and almost invisible. The sun singing this gentle and soft gray song, like drumsticks covered with cotton, or felt; beating very softly on a loosened skin...
...could taste the freedom. She hummed and felt along her vibrant tongue the sweetness and honeyed warmth of freedom. To awaken was a dying...
...worse than the whore's mouth now. The once unawakened young girl, now frightened by the nightmare of her world, aware. The outcast but indispensable woman, the constant worker. Her mouth. When most of the world has fallen into soft sleep, wrapped in that vague warmth of loved ones, or familiar loneliness, or expensive compromise; this mouth, the whore's mouth sucks again on the lipstick reddened cigarette, and begins to harden. The lips unspeaking cry 'fuck you too'. To the ever demanding flaccid phallus, and the rain of sterility...
...would be easier to dismiss had a lesser man made it, but Chaplin, twenty years past his prime, keeps reminding us of his earlier films--not of the Little Tramp he used to play but of the range of emotion his skilled movements could bring forth and of the warmth in his eyes...