The Idle Class (1921) :
Brief Review
A lower class tramp meets a Higher class Wife and her husband to create a comedy of confusions. This isn't a twin formula but sort of similar, that allied faces or replica formula or whatever you call it. It might snatch origins from Shakespeare's 'Comedy Of Errors' where the same looking faces are misunderstood as the same person and then errors are turned into gags. A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband. It becomes even more mad when the husband suspects his wife flirting with some other person. Well, here's a big loop in the film, a big big loop which we should overlook for the sake of cinematic Liberty. It is 1921 so yes we CAN forgive it. Anyways, The Idle Class is half-an-hour long yet starts off on a slow note. We shouldn't talk about Chaplin making his feature-length debut in the same year, his first even universally acclaimed classic- 'The Kid', or else The Idle Class would look so tiny in the comparison. It has its own fun, own charm and scenes that can be enjoyed by kids as well as adults. It all begins with that entire dancing sequence in the hall, the continuous confusion, the fights, the tricks and everything. Like i said, it starts off slow because the most funny character in the film is not shown in the start. It's about those other characters, that Idle Class stuff and so it feels idle just like the characters. In the 2nd half it turns into a laugh riot and then some brilliant ending gives a Full stop to it. Again, it's only and only about Chalie Chaplin. Every single laugh here is provided by him and that's why it is a Must watch for his fans and also for fans of comedy cinema. Overall, a very good comedy but little slow, even for such a short runtime.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
A lower class tramp meets a Higher class Wife and her husband to create a comedy of confusions. This isn't a twin formula but sort of similar, that allied faces or replica formula or whatever you call it. It might snatch origins from Shakespeare's 'Comedy Of Errors' where the same looking faces are misunderstood as the same person and then errors are turned into gags. A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband. It becomes even more mad when the husband suspects his wife flirting with some other person. Well, here's a big loop in the film, a big big loop which we should overlook for the sake of cinematic Liberty. It is 1921 so yes we CAN forgive it. Anyways, The Idle Class is half-an-hour long yet starts off on a slow note. We shouldn't talk about Chaplin making his feature-length debut in the same year, his first even universally acclaimed classic- 'The Kid', or else The Idle Class would look so tiny in the comparison. It has its own fun, own charm and scenes that can be enjoyed by kids as well as adults. It all begins with that entire dancing sequence in the hall, the continuous confusion, the fights, the tricks and everything. Like i said, it starts off slow because the most funny character in the film is not shown in the start. It's about those other characters, that Idle Class stuff and so it feels idle just like the characters. In the 2nd half it turns into a laugh riot and then some brilliant ending gives a Full stop to it. Again, it's only and only about Chalie Chaplin. Every single laugh here is provided by him and that's why it is a Must watch for his fans and also for fans of comedy cinema. Overall, a very good comedy but little slow, even for such a short runtime.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.