Saddness as a part of those times.

As it clearly says in the technical file,"The gold Rush's" genres are: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance. Nonwithstanding, throughout many passages of the movie we see the deepest and cruelest of sadness suffered by the star. In the image we see charles very dissapointed after having invited his love and friends for a new year's eve dinner, and didn't show up.
The way that this marevelous actor expresses his feelings by simple faces, and with the help of the precise type of shots and close ups is amazing. These are made exactly so that the audience captures the moment at its utmost, it personally made me cry and feel really sorry for charles.
Charles fell in love with a girl, that looks like a possible prostitute since she hangs out with a guy that seems to be a ladiesman. Of course, as Charles is poor and dum, this girl does not other thing but to tease him alongside her friends. So, they make the most cruel joke, let him think they would go to that dinner I mentioned earlier. But, Charles has no money to prepare this dinner, so he goes out and begs for money, works shoveling snow, etc. At new year's eve, at eight as they had arranged, charles has all the arangements for a perfect evening, cooking a meal and setting the table he waits up for the ladies to come. In his wait, he falls asleep and dreams about this so wished perfect evening. In this dream he imagines himself with Georgia, the lady I have been talking about, he kisses her, laugh and has fun. Suddenly, he wakes up and realizes that nothing was real, it was just a dream, he looks at the clock and it's 12 0'clock. Here is when the saddest part of the movie comes, he looks outside the door like still with some hope, but nothing comes in, except his donkey (which by the way wasn't even his, nor was the cabin, he was looking after it for sometime). Why am I mentioning this to you? because it is simply my favourite part of the movie.
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