I never felt a feeling of sadness when I watch movies such as Chaplin. It may seem paradoxical, but he had the extraordinary ability to move from a gag comic that makes you bend over with laughter to the sad, sad sequence was extraordinary. And then, Chaplin was the true essence of art in the academic meaning of the term. One who observes reality and filters it through his talent, and repeats it to the public in the form of film, novel, painting, music, photography to show what others have not seen, to shed light on what's around you.
"Circus" is one of those movies that contains within it all Chaplin and maybe something more. There is his humor, is his stage presence is his melancholy, his gentleness, his creative talent behind the camera. There are even his music and his voice, the song that runs over the opening credits.
In its continuous pilgrimage for the world, or rather in its continual escape from the authorities, the Tramp this time is found in a circus, where he becomes unwillingly involved in a number of clowns, so far at all funny, that thanks to the presence of Charlie Chaplin ends up being the highlight of the show. For this reason, the tramp will be recruited and can see for yourself the petty and violent world of the circus. The star that breaks in the opening movie and the door opens and in full force and joy propels us into the magical world of the circus. World that after a few moments we discover to be anything but magical. It 's a world of violence, absurd and wild. Made of fathers owners, talent exploitation, meanness, dirty tricks and follies. In short, the circus looks a lot like our world, our society.
Charlot There is catapulted into and ends up stuck in the gears of society, as in the days of ... "Modern Times".
the scene is emblematic of the number on the rope. Charlot is forced by the circus director to make something that is not good, ends up literally put his life in balance on a wire, with the absurdity and folly of the world (the monkeys) that the ill-treated, they try to cause it to fail . He finds himself with nothing, still in his underwear and even in the end, thanks to its ability to be able to save themselves. A scene that perfectly synthesizer pessimism with which Chaplin was looking at the world around him, the society of owners willing to let mutant in order not to fail, but from which only the artists, with their talent are able to save themselves.
Splendide also the famous sequence of the hall of mirrors, (poster of the meticulousness with which Chaplin study his gag in which everything was calculated to perfection), the discovery by Charlot girl's love for Rex and its collapse his hopes and dreams (this is one of those extraordinary sequences melancholy of his films) and the ending. On an empty lawn in the center of the circle left by the tent on the grass, Charlot, let him go after his love, stay there, with the Star of paper in hand appollottola and takes away, leaving behind that world and resumes its journey towards the infinite, alone, but still pure.
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