Charlie Chaplin: The Kid

The joy and love that a child brings to our lives is beyond anything else. Children bring life to the world, they teach us to love and care and show us that there is more to life then we thought. We are shown how much a child can effect our lives in the early 1921 movie, 'The Kid' written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin, whom also starred in the movie. The movie is an emotional, hilarious, dramatic tale about a man taking in an orphan child, played by Jackie Coogan, and raising him to be his own. Because the movie was made so early, there is no voices and it is black and white. Sounds boring right? Well, it really wasn't, when the right music is added to appropriate scenes and the actions of the characters are entertaining, the movie was surprisingly good, though I probably wouldn't of watched it if I wasn't forced to in a media studies class.
One of the scenes in the movie that really stood out to me was when Charlie was raising the orphan boy and he was teaching the child to help him scam people. The boy would break windows and Charlie would then walk around the corner with a new sheet of glass on his back. This particular part was humorous in that an officer of the law caught on to what Charlie and the kid were doing and started to chase Charlie, the little boy comes to Charlie's rescue and started to hit the cop, then Charlie pointed to the sky where the cop looked and Charlie and the boy ran away.
A scene that was not so great was when Charlie had a dream after the child was taken away from him. The scene was quite long and very hard to understand. I think they are trying to tell us that without the child, it was like Charlie had died because the dream was about a whole bunch of angels surrounding the street around him and then the little boy comes out as an angel. It is a very confusing scene and definitely not one of the best in the movie.
In the final scenes of the movie, the little orphan boy who was separated from his mother, a big movie star, when he was a baby, is reunited with her. When she sees how upset Charlie is after losing the kid, she sends her butler to go and find him, and invites him into the house. I'm just assuming that she lets him live with her and they live happily ever after because after they close the door, the movie ends, but it's one of those things that the viewer decides the movie.