It's wonderful and reminds me of something great!!

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2012)

It's a wonderful movie, of course, but I wonder if it has an original screenplay. Initially, watching this movie, I said to myself: "hey, it's somehow like the Singing in the Rain", but now, after I watched it. I think it's more of a Chaplin's Limelight thing. The storyline is the same, but somehow with less creativity and more fun. By "less creativity", I don't mean "any creativity" at all. There are wonderful original and innovative scenes in the movie (i.e. the scene were the artist tries to make her wife smile); but there are more wonderful creative scenes in the Limelight. Nevertheless, it's bold and also Oscar worthy to make a silent-black-and-white movie in the 21st century as great and wonderful as The Artist. But the Oscar may be better dedicated to great Chaplin himself, if I may say so.