Charles Chaplin achieved something that very few artists have succeeded in: making several generations laugh while talking, at the same time, about poverty, loneliness, inequality and the difficulties of life. Behind Charlot’s character there was a man who knew from a very young age the precariousness and who turned many of those experiences into raw material for his cinema. One of his best-known phrases sums up precisely that look: “Life is a p…
Charles Chaplin achieved something that very few artists have succeeded in: making several generations laugh while talking, at the same time, about poverty, loneliness, inequality and the difficulties of life. Behind Charlot’s character there was a man who knew from a very young age the precariousness and who turned many of those experiences into raw material for his cinema. One of his best-known phrases sums up precisely that look: “Life is a p…