Good story, Not enough for a whole film

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Almost a hundred years before All India Bakchod, India's YouTube based sketch group came to popularity and went onto make their Hotstar sponsored web exclusive called On Air with AIB with the tagline of "Comedy mein Tragedy hain, Comedy mein Tragedy hain..." (There is comedy in tragedy), the one of the two greatest of comedian minds I have ever witnessed, Charles Chaplin decided to observe that obvious truth and plot his entire basis of work. The fact that he is perhaps the greatest mind of his genre, time and even is considered to have made up a personal form of film-making just shows how defining his choices was. The Kid has only one flaw in the whole story which is the ending dream sequence which melds into the reality of the 'lone prospector' (that seems like perpetually Chaplin's character presentation except in The Great Dictator from what I have seen so far; I would correct myself if I see otherwise). It was jarring and snapped me out of the investment I had in the ending of the story because of what the penultimate scene shows with respect to the kid not being an orphan anymore and how it is resolved. Otherwise, it is pretty much another masterclass. The kid who plays The Kid is at times somehow a better act to observe than even Chaplin himself, who is more fatherly despite how clownish ways which makes it all an odd enjoyment.The highlight of the movie is definitely a quarter of the film in when the kid and his 'father' are all tucked into the daily way of life, going about their jobs breaking and repairing things, eating their home-cooked meals and winning fights against stronger strangers in surprising and ridiculous ways. To sum this story, it is about choice, love, loss and parenthood's absolute joy should you choose to accept it, making Life a little more bearable than it was before that choice changed your perspective on it.

Yes, this is my favorite movie. No, it's not perfect, but I still love it.This was Charlie Chaplin's first, and--still my opinion--best film.The Kid is a marvelous mixture of both humor and drama. It's about a little man (called The Little Tramp) who finds a baby on the street. The Little Tramp reluctantly takes the child, begins taking care of it--and soon enough, the baby is a kid, more or less.The child is taken from him, but they still attempt to get back to each other in this captivating tale of companionship and togetherness.Go watch the movie--if you already have--then watch it again.

This movie reminds me of The Pursuit of Happiness (2006). The only difference is the color of the movie, the duration, 95 years and the switch C. Chaplin/W. Smith. A miserable life for Chaplin here until he finds the baby - his new life. Happiness, in most of the cases, arrives easier to poor people because they know how to enjoy life with less. The trouble is that there are lots of mothers who still abandon their vulnerable children nowadays. And this movie is from 1921! It looks like plenty of parents did not watch this movie so that it could arrive to their hearts or feelings, and think twice the option of abandoning a child. But what kind of life does Chaplin has in the movie? Some dreadful clothes, a miserable room and a few pennies to eat some soup or cupcakes during the day? However, a child could always bring prosperity as it happens in The Kid. They seek for each other constantly and that is true love. It is understandable that a young mother could reach to the point to abandon a child, but what it is valuable in the movie is that after realising what she has committed, she gives charities to the penniless society. Since the encounter with the kid, Chaplin makes it easier to nourish, because we all know that life is better when you are positive, and moreover when you take it as a joke.

The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written by, produced by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan[5] as his adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full- length film as a director (he had been a co-star in 1914's Tillie's Punctured Romance). It was a huge success, and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 2011, The Kid was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Innovative in its combination of comedic and dramatic elements,[6] The Kid is widely considered one of the greatest films of the silent era.