An Interesting Story

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The adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still... Read allThe adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks th... Read allThe adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty st... Read all

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- James Williamson

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6.8/10

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Director
- James Williamson

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Considered to be the world's 1st slapstick film.

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8/10

do you think Chaplin saw this like 50 times on original release?

Here's an odd little thing - A Peculiar Story might have fit it better than the 'Interesting' word of the title (surely there are better/more creative words for what this film turns into), where we follow a man as he pours coffee into his hat, stumbles over girls playing jump-rope, can't stop reading his book and then, not unlike Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, gets run over by a steamroller. But that's not the end of what seems like a rather dark turn in the story.

This is a clever little movie, even as it seems to exist simply to showcase this man having pratfalls. And yet there's a musical quality to it, a rhythm that makes it work as cinema, and the actor is also endearing as an on-screen presence. He works because he knows just when to pour the coffee into the wrong place and when to follow it up with. He's not the Tramp, but it should be clear to almost no one that he must have seen this; if nothing else it fits as being true vaudeville (except for the climax and conclusion, which leaps off into fantasy land).

It's... cute, and weird.

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