Hitting Showtime this weekend, documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin contextualizes the icon with his abuses and his politics. Here's IllusiveKen on why it's important that his legacy is rightly complicated:
Chaplin was able to weather those controversies—even as they were publicly and loudly recognized at the time, asgoes into in great detail as the second hour of the documentary begins. It’s here, finally, that some of the women in Chaplin’s life get a voice, and the documentary also draws in interviews with several of his children.
From here, the documentary shifts to Chaplin’s later career and the controversies that followed it, linking these with the death of his tramp character-that curly-haired, mustached man with a bowler hat and cane who everyone, for a whole century, has thought of when the name “Charlie Chaplin” has ever been uttered.
”Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill that promise, they never will! Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!”comes as it draws superficial similarities between Chaplin and another of the 20th century’s most important historical figures: Hitler.
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