City Lights is really a masterpiece...I consider it a greater work of Charles' than Modern Times...it's so full of passion and humanity...a movie that could make you laugh and also make you cry!! The ending scene is a happy ending, but you will fall off tears at the same time....if there could be films at this level nowadays it would be a gift to our modern time.
This scene alone makes CITY LIGHTS deserve its reputation as one of the greatest movies of all time. I saw this as a boy in the theater and was so moved, and naive as I was, hoped that the flower girl could learn to love the Tramp and be with him, for all he had done for her, The ending here is ambiguous in that way. But just so beautiful.
It's brilliant that Chaplin leads the viewer to believe that the (former) blind girl will recognize the Tramp by his voice, and instead she recognizes him by the touch of his hand.
1:55 Look again! He doesn't say _anything._ She is _looking_ at him. She even says sarcastically, "I've made a conquest!" - in other words, "Of course, I'm not interested in a tramp!" The only thing that leads to their reunification is her pity.
@@humanrightsadvocate I would say that the "pity" on her part was when she offered him the fresh new flower and the fifty cent piece; but many mixed emotions when she finally recognized him by the touch of his hand.
@@humanrightsadvocate No, not pity. Just check the earlier part of the story. When she was blind, they become friends after Charlie buys a flower from her and shows interest in her. He later finds a news about a surgeon who could cure blindness and gives her money for her travel and treatment. Obviously she gets sight after the treatment funded by Charlie. So it is not just pity.
@@prabhakarj931 She didn't know it was him! She saw a tramp on the street and - OUT OF PITY - she decided to give him money. It is called pity when you feel sorry for someone. Had she decided to not give a fuck about that poor stranger outside, they would have never reunited. So, in the end, it was PITY that reunited them.
Just imagine being a moviegoer in 1931... Chaplin's smiling face has faded off the screen the theater is plunged into darkness, and the music swells.... unforgettable.
Best scene of all time, taken from the best movie of all time, made by the greatest cinema genius of all time. Pure beauty, true perfection. Words are unnecessary, when amazing acting and wonderful music can talk straight to people's hearts. Thank you, Master Chaplin.
This always leaves me speechless. Everything in this scene is perfect. If the choice existed between this scene and all the movies from the past decade, I would choose this without hesitating. So much wealth in silent films that can only be seen if you search for them. It's a shame. This is the type of film that should play on tv regularly. For all ages, all cultures, everyone everywhere.
I remember I once saw this film at a rep house. When the audience saw the final scene (they were all young people like me), and the flower girl realized he was her benefactor, the whole audience gave a collective "Awwww!" And just then, I could picture Chaplin on his cloud, with that shy smile on his face, saying "Gotcha!" After all these years, he can still wow an audience. THAT is a classic.
I first saw this in the summer of 1974 when CBC Television in Canada showed Chaplin movies every Sunday night, starting with his early short comedies and then moving chronologically to his feature films. I was 10 years old. I was used to having Chaplin make me laugh hysterically, so this movie's ending hit me like a ton of bricks. All these years later City Lights still has the same effect on me. It is powerful and beautiful. If there is a better ending to a movie, I have yet to see it.
This scene is so incredibly intense....and so true. Blind people really can recognize hands. They know calluses and scars like you would know a map, and I love that last shot of Chapllns face. Deliberately made to look intense with the flower by his mouth like a devil about to eat innocence but does not. The perfect composition of mans duality in love and fear. If you could rate genius on a scale of 1 to 10 Chaplin was infinity. Seriously, you can watch this movie an infinite amount of times.
This is one of the most moving scenes ever in motion pictures in my opinion...The Girls facial expressions and Charlies reaction are pure theatre and some of the finest comedy-drama put on film...Its almost always makes me cry....its so beautiful....!
A real gentleman is not defined by his status in class or his manners in social conventions. A real gentleman is defined by how much he is will to sacrifice and do for the one he loves without expecting anything in return. Charlie Chaplin was a beautiful reminder of that to people in the 1920s-1930s, and I don't believe there will be another one like him.
I can watch this scene endlessly on a loop and still be affected every time. So much better than the crap that passes off as romance and love stories nowadays.
Virginia Cherrill (the flower girl) was never a big movie star, never in another great film like this, never nominated for an Oscar. Supposedly, she and Chaplin didn't even like each other, and could barely cooperate to film their scenes. Yet, in this one scene, she does more with just her eyes and expressions than Meryl Streep could do with 10 pages of dialogue. Possibly the greatest moment of pure acting ever caught on film.
Not to take anything away from Cherrill but her great moment at the ending was almost certainly due to Chaplin making Cherrill do 100+ takes before he got the one he wanted.
@@lukebccb9552 Your observation is spot on. Miss Cherrill does deserve some credit for pulling off this scene, but it was Chaplin who was pulling the strings. If Chaplin and Miss Cherrill had not disliked one another, she could have been in the rest of the Chaplin films that lie ahead and during that time he would have made an A-list actress out of her with all the perks of celebrity and Hollywood stardom.
@@johntechwriter Agreed that Miss Streep was an unfortunate choice of examples to make his point; there are plenty of others in the Hollywood sea of actresses who are perhaps a bit overrated and would have better exemplified his point.
Never forget the first time I see this. I'm 36 now and this left me distraught many years ago. Delivers more magic than anything you can put into words. He didn't need them. Just brilliant. You have to remember that today people are simple. They don't have brain cells to stop and think. This would go over so many people's heads and it's actually rather tragic what we have become. Actually think about that logically for a moment. A tramp falls in love and gives what he does not own and takes the suffering for a stranger. The look in his eyes at the end. You can't pay for that beauty today My god damn hero xxxx
One on my absolute favorites as well. There is one other incredible silent film ending you might like. Lillian Gish's character is rescued from an ice floe at the the end of D. W. Griffith's, Way Down East" (1920). It is really worth a look.
This is quite astonishing. Virginia Cherrill holds her own with Chaplin, no easy task. I firmly believe that Chaplin is the greatest movie star ever. That final close up of Chaplin is possibly the single most moving final few seconds of any film.
GENIUS!!! I love you sir Charles forever. The best movie ending in the history of film making. I own every shorts and feature film of this man and in every one of them there is something that stays with you. this and "the Kid" are the most human and poignant movie ever made. Simply the greatest.
There are two scenes of Chaplin that fill my eyes with tears. One is in "The Kid", when the Orphanate officer gest's the child. The other is the ending of City Lights
Unforgettable love story. We can see a great writer in Charlie Chaplin. The way of seeing his lover who was blind flower girl after she had get her eyes revived is very natural and nice. May be this movie was his last silent movie even just before one year sound record had been established in movies. Chaplin worked hard to finish this movie nearly 3 years. Virgina Cherrill is very beatiful heroine in this movie. She died on 14-11-1996 at California in USA at 88th years of age.
Brings tears to my eyes. When she says, "Yes, I can see now", that line speaks volumes and The Tramp and The Girl finding each other again. I can see why this film ending has been called the greatest in in the history of movies!
I've never seen a Charlie Chaplin film before - of course, everyone's heard of him. I was at the public library recently and picked this one up. Now I get it. I laughed so hard my ribs hurt, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry at the end. Simply brilliant. I love the fact that he made this film after the technology for sound was developed, and incorporated the "speech" at the beginning and the music throughout. Here it is days later and I still find myself randomly laughing out loud...
Chaplin was a genius. He managed to make a film absolutely hillarious and light hearted yet at the same time emotional, serious and heart tugging. Not only using the acting, but he also composed the mood-setting music too. He was an exceptionally talented man! I'd say the most talented person to embrace the film industry ever on this earth.
The line, “Yes, I can see now,” has significance beyond the movie. Chaplin resisted the transition to talkies. Films were not improved through spoken dialog, he believed, and the way it generally played out in those first few years, he was probably right. Here he is subtly telling the world that seeing is the essence of film art. And with this scene, it is hard to argue with him.
Exactly - by this time silent actors were rapidly going out of vogue and out of work. Talking in film was the new big thing. There's no way this final scene wasn't a fist-wave at that coming avalanche.
Today, critics consider it not only one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's career, but one of the greatest films ever made. In 1992, the Library of Congress selected City Lights for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies ranked City Lights as the 11th greatest American film of all time. In 1949, the critic James Agee referred to the final scene in the film as the "greatest single piece of acting ever committed to celluloid"
It's a devastating scene and everyone should see this simply to juxtapose it against the fake, phony and forced emotion that is all to common in contemporary film. As the great Robert Osborne said recently about this scene: "that's a killer; that kills...." Certainly, this reveals the genius of Chaplin who said he was not acting in that final scene from City Lights. As someone said below, having his identity revealed to the former blind girl by touch instead of by the sound of his voice is where the true genius of Chaplin is demonstrated here.
There is literally no way he would have had her recognise his voice, voice acting/film had come into existence and was very rapidly putting silent actors out of commission. Chaplin has a few digs at voice acting in this film. But certainly, that's a final one.
A Genius - Charles Chaplin - created a Masterpiece - City Lights. And the final scene is... wow... simply heavenly... So simple, so true, so human, so touching... so divine!
I totally agree it's one of the greatest - and definitely the most moving - endings in film history. I'm amazed at the use of the music - the change in the music after she takes his hand then starts feeling it and then realizes - that change in the music shows Chaplin, who wrote the music, knew deeply how to use it and it's impact on the emotion of the scene is...well, genius.
Oggi un film del genere sarebbe sicuramente ignorato. Mettete insieme il bianco/nero, la storia semplice, la musica e quel gran genio, ma soprattutto "uomo" di Chaplin e questo è il meraviglioso risultato. Chaplin: l'irripetibile!!!!!!!!!!
chaplin did this film with all the heart. i imagine myself being a tramp and walking by the streets and feeling the same that chaplin. when he was a kid, he was really poor, miserable, but a boy with a very sweet and sensible heart. great chaplin. God bless you, friend.
Fantastic comments posted here. To think there are young people today who won't watch black and white movies, never mind silent black and white movies! This is undoubtedly one of the great movie endings ever--perhaps the greatest. How did City Lights not win the Best Picture Oscar for 1931?
Awww...Charlie Chaplins acts so well! Oh, and he directs well too. His content is great. Does'nt rely on special effects... Behold, one of the greatest artist of all time.
There are at least 2 other great, tragic endings: La Strada by Fellini and The Children of Paradise by M. Carne. Great, memorable endings that change you forever. I can think of perhaps 8 more, but these 2 will do.
This is my favorite romantic scene ever in movies. And I have seen thousands. To better appreciate it you need to have seen the whole movie, you need to know Chaplin, you must have read his autobiography, you must be a fan of silent movies and you must have a heart, a tender heart that can be moved by doing heroic things for nothing, for anything in return. Her reckoning of the fact that it was him after all, the one that had given her all when she was blind, and the fact that everything is said with gestures is sublime. It took Chaplin lots of takes to get this final result and he was really cruel to actors and staff in doing so. In the end, he managed to speak with the divine to leave behind this masterpiece that makes you connect to that insane abstract feeling of absolute love, that comes from who knows where in your soul.
a friend of mine, who is a big fan of Chaplin, recomended me this film...a watched last night and it was perfect...now understand why Chaplin is a great master..
I think that this scene hear proves there is a God, because how can such a powerful emotion of the heart be a whim of chance? Love is the greatest gift, a gift used seemingly less and less, and done in a way like this, Mr Chaplin new how to use it's power to stir feelings in even the most hardhearted person. So beautiful. Thank you so much Sir Chaplin, you will be remembered for as long as there are still beating hearts in this world and beyond.
Arguably the best film ending outside of Casablanca. Just filled with nuance and beauty, and Mr. Chaplin plays a character who is completely relatable.
This is the greatest scene ever filmed. If nothing had been produced after City Lights, even then cinema would be the greatest art of all. Chaplin is eternal, one of the greatest artists of our time. I'm proud to have lived in the same planet he did.
I saw this movie while attending a college film class. When it ended, the silence was deafening, as everyone strived to control their emotions. Only those with the hardest of hearts won't be moved by this.
What a beautiful testament to the art they created - still making us cry after 85 years.
90 years. Pass the Kleenex.
❤️
Yes, the most beautiful ending of all time...Yes, you can't see this ending without tears...
Also, think about the MUSIC is also by Charlie Chaplin
Just thinking about it tears me up
It doesn't have the strength of the ending of "The Ghost & Mr Chicken", but "City Lights" does indeed have a truly beautiful ending !
@@mallubhai0MBBS And the writing, directing, producing, filming, acting......no one in movie history is close to Charlie Chaplin.
@@mallubhai0MBBS The main theme of this film is not by Chaplin, but by Spanish musician José Padilla, titled "La violetera".
Yes! The best ending for a film of all times. If there is someone who can watch this without crying, he/she has to be dead inside.
City Lights is really a masterpiece...I consider it a greater work of Charles' than Modern Times...it's so full of passion and humanity...a movie that could make you laugh and also make you cry!! The ending scene is a happy ending, but you will fall off tears at the same time....if there could be films at this level nowadays it would be a gift to our modern time.
This scene alone makes CITY LIGHTS deserve its reputation as one of the greatest movies of all time.
I saw this as a boy in the theater and was so moved, and naive as I was, hoped that the flower girl could learn to love the Tramp and be with him, for all he had done for her, The ending here is ambiguous in that way. But just so beautiful.
Slight correction, this movie IS and will ALWAYS be a masterpiece. One of my favorite films of all time.
It's brilliant that Chaplin leads the viewer to believe that the (former) blind girl will recognize the Tramp by his voice, and instead she recognizes him by the touch of his hand.
1:55 Look again! He doesn't say _anything._ She is _looking_ at him. She even says sarcastically, "I've made a conquest!" - in other words, "Of course, I'm not interested in a tramp!" The only thing that leads to their reunification is her pity.
@@humanrightsadvocate I would say that the "pity" on her part was when she offered him the fresh new flower and the fifty cent piece; but many mixed emotions when she finally recognized him by the touch of his hand.
When a girl does not touch thousands of hands of men in a month, she will really get to know
@@humanrightsadvocate No, not pity. Just check the earlier part of the story. When she was blind, they become friends after Charlie buys a flower from her and shows interest in her. He later finds a news about a surgeon who could cure blindness and gives her money for her travel and treatment. Obviously she gets sight after the treatment funded by Charlie. So it is not just pity.
@@prabhakarj931 She didn't know it was him! She saw a tramp on the street and - OUT OF PITY - she decided to give him money. It is called pity when you feel sorry for someone.
Had she decided to not give a fuck about that poor stranger outside, they would have never reunited. So, in the end, it was PITY that reunited them.
Just imagine being a moviegoer in 1931... Chaplin's smiling face has faded off the screen the theater is plunged into darkness, and the music swells.... unforgettable.
Moviegoer from 2017 here, it's still unforgettable.
Best scene of all time, taken from the best movie of all time, made by the greatest cinema genius of all time. Pure beauty, true perfection. Words are unnecessary, when amazing acting and wonderful music can talk straight to people's hearts. Thank you, Master Chaplin.
💖💖💖...
Chaplin is the only man who can create a movie ending that makes me smile and cry at the same time. Truely the greatest film maker who ever lived.
There's something about silent films that makes them so innocent and beautiful. Couldn't help but cry and smile with joy
The smile he gives at the end---it fills me with happiness.
This always leaves me speechless. Everything in this scene is perfect. If the choice existed between this scene and all the movies from the past decade, I would choose this without hesitating.
So much wealth in silent films that can only be seen if you search for them. It's a shame. This is the type of film that should play on tv regularly. For all ages, all cultures, everyone everywhere.
I remember I once saw this film at a rep house. When the audience saw the final scene (they were all young people like me), and the flower girl realized he was her benefactor, the whole audience gave a collective "Awwww!" And just then, I could picture Chaplin on his cloud, with that shy smile on his face, saying "Gotcha!" After all these years, he can still wow an audience. THAT is a classic.
I first saw this in the summer of 1974 when CBC Television in Canada showed Chaplin movies every Sunday night, starting with his early short comedies and then moving chronologically to his feature films. I was 10 years old. I was used to having Chaplin make me laugh hysterically, so this movie's ending hit me like a ton of bricks. All these years later City Lights still has the same effect on me. It is powerful and beautiful. If there is a better ending to a movie, I have yet to see it.
Charlie understood the human soul..and we are the beneficiaries of his great talent. Thank you, Mr. Chaplin!
This is probably the greatest ending to a movie ever. SO beautiful.
There is something terribly, terribly wrong with anyone who isn't moved by the final scene of City Lights.
And yet....there are some.
+Folma7 agree!
you're absolutely right my friend!
Gets me every time!
i am not moved just bored
For all the epic tales of human emotion, the greatest film ending of all time .
This scene is so incredibly intense....and so true. Blind people really can recognize hands. They know calluses and scars like you would know a map, and I love that last shot of Chapllns face. Deliberately made to look intense with the flower by his mouth like a devil about to eat innocence but does not. The perfect composition of mans duality in love and fear. If you could rate genius on a scale of 1 to 10 Chaplin was infinity. Seriously, you can watch this movie an infinite amount of times.
This is one of the most moving scenes ever in motion pictures in my opinion...The Girls facial expressions and Charlies reaction are pure theatre and some of the finest comedy-drama put on film...Its almost always makes me cry....its so beautiful....!
The greatest scene of all time.
"Yes I can see now" has so many meanings within the context of the story. Genius!!
The greatest film maker, actor, comedian, choreographer, composer in movie history- all in one man.
A real gentleman is not defined by his status in class or his manners in social conventions. A real gentleman is defined by how much he is will to sacrifice and do for the one he loves without expecting anything in return. Charlie Chaplin was a beautiful reminder of that to people in the 1920s-1930s, and I don't believe there will be another one like him.
チャップリンの映画を見ていると、どんなにつらくても生きて行こうという強い意志を感じられます。本当にすばらしい映画です！！
エドナちゃん。途中から目が見えるようになるんですよね。手の感触でチャップリンとわかるなんて素晴らしいです。無声映画は見るものに想像を掻き立てますね。
@@user-gj1sy5mj7w 途中からって、チャップリンが手術費用出して、目を治してあげるんやないか。
自然に治ったみたいに言わんとってくれ。
I can't watch this without tearing up. Its just so touching.
I can watch this scene endlessly on a loop and still be affected every time. So much better than the crap that passes off as romance and love stories nowadays.
agreed!
Brilliant acting, her realisation and change of expression. What a choker.
The music also played it's part. Magical stuff.
When the despair hits hard. When you are losing faith in what good there is... There is this. Forever. For all time.
Charlie's smile at the end is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
Yes there's almost a child-like innocence in his eyes and his smile. A legend indeed
Virginia Cherrill (the flower girl) was never a big movie star, never in another great film like this, never nominated for an Oscar. Supposedly, she and Chaplin didn't even like each other, and could barely cooperate to film their scenes. Yet, in this one scene, she does more with just her eyes and expressions than Meryl Streep could do with 10 pages of dialogue. Possibly the greatest moment of pure acting ever caught on film.
Not to take anything away from Cherrill but her great moment at the ending was almost certainly due to Chaplin making Cherrill do 100+ takes before he got the one he wanted.
Jolly4jc There is no need to diminish Meryl Streep to make your dubious point.
such a grand compliment. You cannot see it, without tears in your eyes.....
@@lukebccb9552 Your observation is spot on. Miss Cherrill does deserve some credit for pulling off this scene, but it was Chaplin who was pulling the strings. If Chaplin and Miss Cherrill had not disliked one another, she could have been in the rest of the Chaplin films that lie ahead and during that time he would have made an A-list actress out of her with all the perks of celebrity and Hollywood stardom.
@@johntechwriter Agreed that Miss Streep was an unfortunate choice of examples to make his point; there are plenty of others in the Hollywood sea of actresses who are perhaps a bit overrated and would have better exemplified his point.
Never forget the first time I see this. I'm 36 now and this left me distraught many years ago.
Delivers more magic than anything you can put into words. He didn't need them. Just brilliant.
You have to remember that today people are simple. They don't have brain cells to stop and think. This would go over so many people's heads and it's actually rather tragic what we have become.
Actually think about that logically for a moment. A tramp falls in love and gives what he does not own and takes the suffering for a stranger. The look in his eyes at the end. You can't pay for that beauty today
My god damn hero xxxx
*you were 36 yrs old lol!!*
This is without question the best ending scene of any movie.
There is nothing else that can compete with this.
The most touching moment I've ever watch in a movie. What an ending!
In tears! My favorite scene from this classic film!
One on my absolute favorites as well. There is one other incredible silent film ending you might like. Lillian Gish's character is rescued from an ice floe at the the end of D. W. Griffith's, Way Down East" (1920). It is really worth a look.
Yes, indeed.Very 'strong' in emotions scene.
Liza DeCamp absolutely tears always come in my eyes when i see this wonderful ending...
This is quite astonishing. Virginia Cherrill holds her own with Chaplin, no easy task. I firmly believe that Chaplin is the greatest movie star ever. That final close up of Chaplin is possibly the single most moving final few seconds of any film.
GENIUS!!! I love you sir Charles forever.
The best movie ending in the history of film making.
I own every shorts and feature film of this man and in every one of them there is something that stays with you.
this and "the Kid" are the most human and poignant movie ever made.
Simply the greatest.
The most romantic, heartwarming scene in cinematic history...
"what is essential is invisible to the eye"
- Saint-Exupery
Le petite prince
The best ending to a film ever. There has been no ending to a film like this since. So much warmth, love and understanding. Tissues every time :-)
There are two scenes of Chaplin that fill my eyes with tears. One is in "The Kid", when the Orphanate officer gest's the child. The other is the ending of City Lights
Exactly!!
人類史に永遠に残すべき最も美しい映画ー
Unforgettable love story. We can see a great writer in Charlie Chaplin. The way of seeing his lover who was blind flower girl after she had get her eyes revived is very natural and nice. May be this movie was his last silent movie even just before one year sound record had been established in movies. Chaplin worked hard to finish this movie nearly 3 years. Virgina Cherrill is very beatiful heroine in this movie. She died on 14-11-1996 at California in USA at 88th years of age.
La violetera was composed by Jose Padilla and was not created for Chaplin but for the Spanish vedette soprano Raquel Meller when she was in Paris.
Brings tears to my eyes. When she says, "Yes, I can see now", that line speaks volumes and The Tramp and The Girl finding each other again. I can see why this film ending has been called the greatest in in the history of movies!
I've never seen a Charlie Chaplin film before - of course, everyone's heard of him. I was at the public library recently and picked this one up. Now I get it. I laughed so hard my ribs hurt, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry at the end. Simply brilliant. I love the fact that he made this film after the technology for sound was developed, and incorporated the "speech" at the beginning and the music throughout. Here it is days later and I still find myself randomly laughing out loud...
I watch and cry.....every time. Just beautiful!!!!
Chaplin was a genius. He managed to make a film absolutely hillarious and light hearted yet at the same time emotional, serious and heart tugging. Not only using the acting, but he also composed the mood-setting music too. He was an exceptionally talented man! I'd say the most talented person to embrace the film industry ever on this earth.
The line, “Yes, I can see now,” has significance beyond the movie. Chaplin resisted the transition to talkies. Films were not improved through spoken dialog, he believed, and the way it generally played out in those first few years, he was probably right. Here he is subtly telling the world that seeing is the essence of film art. And with this scene, it is hard to argue with him.
Exactly - by this time silent actors were rapidly going out of vogue and out of work. Talking in film was the new big thing. There's no way this final scene wasn't a fist-wave at that coming avalanche.
Yes i can see now - yes i ve understood you now
Today, critics consider it not only one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's career, but one of the greatest films ever made. In 1992, the Library of Congress selected City Lights for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies ranked City Lights as the 11th greatest American film of all time. In 1949, the critic James Agee referred to the final scene in the film as the "greatest single piece of acting ever committed to celluloid"
Probably the most beautiful ending of ever!! Magic, art, poetry, legend!!
It's a devastating scene and everyone should see this simply to juxtapose it against the fake, phony and forced emotion that is all to common in contemporary film. As the great Robert Osborne said recently about this scene: "that's a killer; that kills...." Certainly, this reveals the genius of Chaplin who said he was not acting in that final scene from City Lights. As someone said below, having his identity revealed to the former blind girl by touch instead of by the sound of his voice is where the true genius of Chaplin is demonstrated here.
There is literally no way he would have had her recognise his voice, voice acting/film had come into existence and was very rapidly putting silent actors out of commission.
Chaplin has a few digs at voice acting in this film. But certainly, that's a final one.
Primo Levi And remember, she previously associated the sound of of the limousine with her “millionaire”.
Filmmaking of the highest order. It takes a serious talent to put that much emotion, pathos and comedy into a film without even using words.
A Genius - Charles Chaplin - created a Masterpiece - City Lights. And the final scene is... wow... simply heavenly... So simple, so true, so human, so touching... so divine!
It gets me everytime.
I totally agree it's one of the greatest - and definitely the most moving - endings in film history.
I'm amazed at the use of the music - the change in the music after she takes his hand then starts feeling it and then realizes - that change in the music shows Chaplin, who wrote the music, knew deeply how to use it and it's impact on the emotion of the scene is...well, genius.
何回見てもこのシーンはウルルとなる。チャップリンはすごいなぁ。
one of the best endings i have ever seen. i get teary eyed every time i see this a true genius charles chaplin was
Oggi un film del genere sarebbe sicuramente ignorato. Mettete insieme il bianco/nero, la storia semplice, la musica e quel gran genio, ma soprattutto "uomo" di Chaplin e questo è il meraviglioso risultato. Chaplin: l'irripetibile!!!!!!!!!!
The most powerful moment of a great career. Time is Chaplin`s dearest and eternal friend.....
The ending to this movie always makes me cry ever since the first time i saw it. The moment he says "you can see now?"---tears start welling up.
Incredibile, a distanza di 100 anni, è sempre un CAPOLAVORO ♥️♥️♥️
chaplin did this film with all the heart. i imagine myself being a tramp and walking by the streets and feeling the same that chaplin. when he was a kid, he was really poor, miserable, but a boy with a very sweet and sensible heart. great chaplin. God bless you, friend.
Can't believe it! I thought I was the only one who cried after this ending! THIS IS LOVE
3.05からの繊細な心の機微を、この女優は微妙な顔の表情の変化により、見事に演じきった。
天才チャップリンと互角に演技をしたと思います。すばらしい演技力。30年ぶりぐらいで、このシーンを観ました。なつかしいです。いつ観ても、胸を打たれます。
Fantastic comments posted here. To think there are young people today who won't watch black and white movies, never mind silent black and white movies! This is undoubtedly one of the great movie endings ever--perhaps the greatest. How did City Lights not win the Best Picture Oscar for 1931?
Awww...Charlie Chaplins acts so well!
Oh, and he directs well too.
His content is great.
Does'nt rely on special effects...
Behold, one of the greatest artist of all time.
Makes me cry everytime.
Has there ever been a greater ending of a movie? I think not.
There are at least 2 other great, tragic endings: La Strada by Fellini and The Children of Paradise by M. Carne. Great, memorable endings that change you forever. I can think of perhaps 8 more, but these 2 will do.
Take a look at Fellini's The nights of Cabiria or La Strada. Or at 2001 a space odissey.
Poignant... L'une des plus belles scènes jamais filmées!!
I have watched this movie yesterday for the first time. It is beautiful and incredibly powerful!
If everyone had a heart like Chaplin, the world would be near flawless if not perfect.
This is my favorite romantic scene ever in movies. And I have seen thousands. To better appreciate it you need to have seen the whole movie, you need to know Chaplin, you must have read his autobiography, you must be a fan of silent movies and you must have a heart, a tender heart that can be moved by doing heroic things for nothing, for anything in return. Her reckoning of the fact that it was him after all, the one that had given her all when she was blind, and the fact that everything is said with gestures is sublime. It took Chaplin lots of takes to get this final result and he was really cruel to actors and staff in doing so. In the end, he managed to speak with the divine to leave behind this masterpiece that makes you connect to that insane abstract feeling of absolute love, that comes from who knows where in your soul.
a friend of mine, who is a big fan of Chaplin, recomended me this film...a watched last night and it was perfect...now understand why Chaplin is a great master..
I think that this scene hear proves there is a God, because how can such a powerful emotion of the heart be a whim of chance? Love is the greatest gift, a gift used seemingly less and less, and done in a way like this, Mr Chaplin new how to use it's power to stir feelings in even the most hardhearted person. So beautiful. Thank you so much Sir Chaplin, you will be remembered for as long as there are still beating hearts in this world and beyond.
Arguably the best film ending outside of Casablanca. Just filled with nuance and beauty, and Mr. Chaplin plays a character who is completely relatable.
I am am still wowed that a movie with no spoken words can evoke such emotion.
A beautiful movie...such a beautiful ending.
I watched that movie one time complete and that szene a hundred times more and always my eyes get wet. What a miracle. What a masterpiece.
This is simply magical. A beautiful ending to such a wonderful film.
This is the greatest scene ever filmed. If nothing had been produced after City Lights, even then cinema would be the greatest art of all. Chaplin is eternal, one of the greatest artists of our time. I'm proud to have lived in the same planet he did.
Oh,my God!Broke my heart this scene!!!
A scene that shows basically every human emotion and ends on acceptance and love. Beautiful.
This scene is completely transcendent. There is nothing else like it.
Cette fin de film me met à chaque fois les larmes aux yeux !!!
Quelle poésie !!
Merci pour ce partage !!!!
すばらしいの一言では言い表せない、美しくも哀しい、切なさの中にも可愛らしさのある映画。
この素晴らしさを表現するのにどんな言葉を使えばいいんだろう？
全ての世代、あらゆる国の人に見てほしい。
「本当に大切なものは目に見えないんだよ。」その言葉が改めて胸に沁みます。
今までに もう何回同じ場面を見たでしょうね。本当に 胸に じいん と 気ます。又街の灯の歌も素晴らしいです。
I saw this movie while attending a college film class. When it ended, the silence was deafening, as everyone strived to control their emotions. Only those with the hardest of hearts won't be moved by this.
One of the greatest scenes ever in movies.
The American Film Institute rated *City Lights* as the #1 Romantic Comedy of all time.
there will be nobody like chaplin anymore as long as cinema exists!! and i wont allow it!!! chaplin is unique!!!!
absolutely beautiful ending, I always cry.
I cry every time I see this. No words.
The greatest ending to a film ever!
The ending is breathtaking. Just lovely.
No matter how many times I watch this - I never ever have my complete satisfaction. 😊
THIS IS TRULY ONE OF THE BEST SCENES IN MOVIE HISTORY.IF NOT THE BEST.
A film that showcases true humanity.
this scene is so hard to watch without crying
its beautiful and authentic i cant
Almost like God AD'd this scene for Chaplin, it is so profoundly moving. Beyond genius, IMHO.
Please. Go away with your god crap.