A tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill) and goes to extreme lengths to help her financially.
City Lights is a classic Chaplin film, one of his biggest in terms of solidifying his Tramp character. The slapstick still works and the love story is cute but the "eccentric millionaire" character could use an investigation. When he's drunk, he swings between suicidally depressed and manic partying. When he's sober, he ruins poor people's lives. That's not eccentric. That's just an alcoholic. But again, still accurate nine decades later.
City Lights is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and HBO Max.
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