(7/9/07, castro theater w/Ell&Erin, 7:00p)
1) This movie is just good and fun and happy and beautiful
2) The ending is perfect, and it would make a good example if one were making an argument for the relevance of silent films. No amount of dialogue could have made that ending any better or more perfectly executed. All he needed to do was smile shyly. Reminds me of the likewise perfect ending of Before Sunset: it's all in the way Julie Delpy dances and Ethan Hawke smiles. And, of course, the fadeout.
3) Interesting how the drunk driving scenes are played up for light laughs. I can't imagine anything but the crassest of contemporary comedies using drunk driving in that way.
4) I love the early twentieth century faith and hope in science demonstrated by the blindness cure. Of course science will cure blindness! And then the blind person will be happier and more prosperous! (or maybe some of the prosperousness had to do with the thousand dollars the tramp gave her... also, I think the newspaper said the procedure was free for poor people, so I'm not exactly sure why she needed the money for it...)
5)Easily the greatest boxing scene ever filmed.
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