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#MonsieurVerdoux is probably one of the most confusing, self-indulgent, unfunny but well-produced comedies I've ever seen. It doesn't know what it wants to be except a vehicle for getting Chaplin in front of eyeballs. It is not redeemed by the self-righteous "moral" at the end.

So damn weird.

#MonsieurVerdoux is probably one of the most confusing, self-indulgent, unfunny but well-produced comedies I've ever seen. It doesn't know what it wants to be except a vehicle for getting Chaplin in front of eyeballs. It is not redeemed by the self-righteous "moral" at the end.

The only somewhat funny part of #MonsieurVerdoux so far has been the Martha Raye rowboat scene, and it was pure vaudeville.

At one point, he declines to poison a woman when she proves herself capable of love.

Is this a commentary on ... something? OK, he's got standards? #MonsieurVerdoux

#MonsieurVerdoux is so damn odd. It's set in 1933 but was made post-WW2, post-Shoah. It is about a banally evil man who, at one point, plans and executes chemical poisoning experiments on drifters. And it shows zero ironic awareness of its subject & placement in time so far. WTF.

Chaplin keeps looking into the camera, breaking the fourth wall as a joke.

#MonsieurVerdoux

Wait, scene moves to Paris and suddenly, a score! #MonsieurVerdoux

There is no score to #MonsieurVerdoux. Another oddity.

Chaplain is overacting as if he's irresistably charming and it comes off strangely creepy.

Odd occasional slapstick that lands flat.

Starting #MonsieurVerdoux a little early. It's weird so far, relying on a weird hybrid of silent film and talkie tropes, as if Chaplain wasn't sure of himself.

I just watched Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Verdoux?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #MonsieurVerdoux #CharlieChaplin #MarthaRaye #WilliamFrawley #MarilynNash

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