Hi my dear readers. How are you today? Hope you're doing fine. Today
I'm going to write about my favourite movie in the whole world: Limelight by Charlie Chaplin.
Limelight was one of the last films that Chaplin directed,
wrote and played the leading role on it.Charlie began to produce this
movie when he was exiled from the United States of America because of
his alleged communist sympathies. He was expecting that this was his
last production.
The story begins showing us Calvero (Chaplin),
an old artist that was a great comedian in the past but now he-s
trapped between failure and alcoholism. He arrives to the building where
he lives and smells something really strange. The, He discoveres that a
young woman was trying to suffocate herself. Calvero saves the young
woman and takes her to his apartment. The name of the young gilr is
Terry. She wakes ups and they both begin to talk about what had
happened. Terry tells to Calvero that she was reallly depressed and
wanted to die. She was a ballet dancer that couldn´t walk. Calvero
decides to take care of her and to help her to see how great and
beautiful life can be. Calvero made Terry stand up and continue her
dancing carreer. Terry fell in love with Calvero but he tells her that
It's impossible, cause He was a really old person and his life was
ending while Terry's life was just begining. Terry is succeeding on her carrer while no one needs Calvero`s talent, so Terry decides to prepare a tribute show for Calvero. Calvero participates on his own Tribute show and everybody is applauding him. When Terry is going to dance, Calvero suffers a heart atack and dies on the middle of the dance.
This is my favourite movie because it has one of the most fantastic artistic seings I've ever seen. The dance, the music and the theatre mixed in the same production. In 1972, twenty years after the film’s first release, Chaplin and his musical collaborators Raymond Rasch and Larry Russel were awarded an Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score.
"Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. " - Calvero
