Reviewing the work of Charlie Chaplin we have to admit that "Face on the floor of the bar" - atypical of his film, shot at the studio Keystone. Yes, again before the viewer appears Tramp (in the plot of the picture - a regular of the local bar), who is not averse to start a fight with slaps, kicks, etc. That's just the plot of the film turned out to be sad. All because Chaplin wanted to ridicule such a popular genre in cinema as melodrama. Once he had already mocked the image of a hero dying of indivisible love (“Cruel, cruel love”). Now I decided to repeat something similar, but in his film, and in the image of the Tramp.
In the story, the main character tells the bar visitors his sad story about how the muse left him - a talented artist. And she went to a rich client, having previously fallen in love with the portrait (which was painted by Chaplin’s hero). As a result, dropping his hands, the artist turned over time into a Tramp and a regular visitor to beer establishments. Of course, at the end of the picture there will be a fight. But all this will not look so fun (as well as Chaplin’s attempt to draw the face of his beloved on the floor of the bar with chalk). And all because of the reason Charlie was here.
Over time, Chaplin will hone his skills to combine sadness and humor on the screen. But so far there has been a crude attempt to ridicule the clichés of melodrama because of the specifics of the film studio. After all, it is quite difficult through farce to laugh at human grief.
4 out of 10