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Rating: "Limelight" is the story of Calvero, an old theater comedian who has fallen into disgrace and is now addicted to alcohol, and Terry, an aspiring ballerina.
The two meet under dramatic circumstances; Terry attempts suicide, but Calvero saves her life. He keeps her at his home, helps her recover, and convinces her that suicide is an immense folly.
Both are dirt poor, living in a miserable rented room, almost on the street, yet together they find strength in each other until...
A famous film by the immense Charlie Chaplin, here at 63 years old, yet still able to make people laugh (the scene with the musical satire with the "sidekick" Buster Keaton is iconic) but more importantly, to make them reflect and move them.
In this film, Chaplin generously shares pearls of wisdom about life, its meaning (but what's the point of looking for meaning?), its value, courage, love, and the fact that in any case, we're always amateurs; life is too short to become professionals.
It's a Chaplin who, like everyone else, has to reckon with the passing of time, inexorable, even for a man like him.
The film won an Oscar "posthumously" (20 years later!) for its soundtrack, which he composed. The main theme is more famous than the film itself!
It isn’t as overwhelming as "Modern Times" and Calvero isn't exactly "The Tramp," but Charlie Chaplin, at 63, was still a phenomenon and undoubtedly an extraordinary actor (a rather limiting term for him).
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