My likely last movie for a few days might as well concern insurance fraud.
The reason why I am posting this later than usual and why I expect to not see any films for the next few days is a good one, and it being Memorial Day weekend in the United States is part of it. Today one of my sisters and two of my nephews arrived via plane to Florida and will be here until the middle of next week. Aside from the young boys visiting Florida for the first time and them visiting all the Disney parks in Florida along with a beach (which involves me escorting them around) I will have to be a de facto dad during this time... a terrifying thought that is! I'll never be a parent as that is just not for me but I'll do my best while they are here. They are typical young boys so it will be exhausting at the very least.
Now you can see why I expect to not have much free time for frivolous motion picture viewing-let alone reviewing-until around the 3rd and I only had time earlier today to watch a half hour silent short, and I chose another one of the Chaplin connection they have on the Criterion Channel. This was a pretty good effort where The Tramp plays a fireman that in the first section bumbles around the firehouse and to steal a line from a Letterboxd mutual, there's some footage ran in reverse in humor, so this actually has more than one Tenet moment.
Anyhow, a heel makes a deal with the fire chief-who naturally does not get along with The Tramp-to have the heel's house burn down for the insurance money and once the cash rolls in, the chief can marry his pretty daughter. Of course circumstances happen and there's laughs throughout involving a fire hose, the firehouse pole, the firetruck, etc. While not my favorite from Chaplin, there was still enough comedy (not to mention a nice stunt or two) where “pretty good” is the rating I can give this.
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