The film “Golden Rush” Charlie Chaplin, 100 years after his first show in 1925, returned to the screen with a popular version of 4K, as if he had just left the installation hall. This is a greeting to the history of a movie that puts us face to face with his constant ability to life and speak without words. What we saw exceeded the fact that it was Steepia’s celebration to a deep reminder that Silent Cinema could never say; She said what he could not say. In this rare sense, the Metropolis cinema showed the film as part of the global celebration, which included more than 500 halls in 70 countries, including Beirut.
With a small adventure of gold in the ice spaces of Alaska, we listen to an expanded human hunger: hunger for heat, love, for dignity. Among the general Snow White, the cold becomes parallel to the characters, which is between the bodies, deepens its unity and pays all the attention to another as an act of survival. Snow in the film Chaplin closes his heart when he closes the path, and puts a person in the face of the most severe possibilities.
In a forgotten hut, between two hungry men, the shoes rose and followed, and bread becomes safety, sole, and a friend is a chicken of fantasy in a panic attack. But the comedy, as Chaplin saw, is the other side of the tragedy. Irony is a path of pain, and it is not an escape from it. A painful picture of human dignity when it is leveled.
In one of the sweetest scenes in the film “Homeless” is the New Year for a loved one, and I promised him to come, and then forgot, and the dance of the “loaf of bread” begins on spikes. Light dance, funny, but painful.
Here, the genius of Chaplin is manifested in the maximum ability: the ability to tell without a conversational language, the ability to convince without rhetoric and the ability to communicate without the media.
There is no need for words; One body shows temporary joy and residual refraction. And when this does not come, he comes out at night to look for his effect, lost on the streets, since he was repeatedly lost in the snow. It does not scream and does not collapse. He only continues to walk.
He knew that laughter and pain were not far, and that a smile could be a different side of mortality, and this fragility is not a weakness, but rather a way of identification. As for the fact that the picture does not speak, the music speaks. At the heart of this silence of tones, compiled by Chaplin himself, shone for the publication of 1942. This music conducts an interview with the image instead of being pleased with him, sympathizing with him and completing his drawback. She is a hidden hero in the film, giving missing phrases tone and nostalgia.
The creativity that Chaplin signed here was not limited to directing or performance. His main manifestations were in his deep view of man, and in building a scene as a series of events: his scene is a complete emotional experience. The shot is a narrative impulse, and the performance is not only between the two characters; This is between two times: the time of the soul and time of the cinema.
Then comes the scene of the hut, which sways on the edge of the collision in order to read the exact metaphor for all life. All that we have can be on the lips of autumn, and all salvation is a matter of time, good luck and hand that extends at the last minute.
Despite the whole delay, all the absence, all betrayal, the film does not end, not giving the hero of love. The meeting by chance on the ship, after everything has changed, he confirmed that his eyes would remain to be determined if the meeting was destined to receive.
Love becomes an unexpected laugh after a long scene of oscillations. As if Charlie Chaplin says that the world, despite his cruelty, will still be able to give lovers another chance.
“Gold” is a film about what is the most valuable of gold: about the dignity of a person, when he collapses, about love that is deposited and not canceled, from art, which can wake us of the deepest without the need for a word. The film about this rare mineral of tenderness, belonging, patience and rhythm.
