My only problem with this movie is that the gamin seems to forget about her little siblings. She ends up happy and hopeful and doesn't even mention them after they are separated from her. I dont' even think Chaplin's tramp ever finds out she still has a family.
shareI noticed that, too...when I asked my teacher who was screening the film, he simply said, "it's Hollywood."
Last Film Seen:
Being John Malkovich (1999) - 9/10
I also thought about that..
shareWell, the movie did not try to cover every aspect of what they would do. Her siblings were put in, was it an orphanage. She was wanted for vagrancy, stealing, etc. I think she know she couldn't go see them until things cleared up.
shareSince she was still a minor, asking the authorities where her sisters were would have caused her to be arrested, plus, there wasn't anything she could do for them. Unfortunately, the way adoption worked at the time, and probably still does to some extent, there was no guarantee that either had been adopted or if they had been, adopted by one family and had been split up. If they had been adopted, at least they would have been with a (hopefully) stable family. If not, they would have had the orphanage taking care of them. Based on Charlie's attempts to get into jail - at least it had meals, bedding, and a roof - it was better than living on the street.
We kind of see this today when someone tries holding up a bank for $1 to get into jail for health care.
perhaps it's a statment on the isolation of the industrial age and the tendency of the desperate focus on mere survival to destroy the family
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