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Thursday, 17 November 2011

City Lights (1931)

Audiences applaud the athletic antics of Buster Keaton, but I've always been more of a Chaplin man. He's been accused more than once of over-sentimentalism, so if that means associating me as a sentimentalist, so be it. This silent classic finds the Little Tramp attempting to raise money to pay for a blind flower girl's eye operation. Contains so many classic slapstick sequences, I struggle to contain myself. I cry like a bitch at that ending every time. Enough said.

5 boxing rounds out of 5

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