视频简介
This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops. At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it. One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.。该片形成了一种无产者与资本家阶级对立的现实主义题材，以及神的力量奖善惩恶的寓言混合体。此片有两个主要特点，第一是怀旧情绪。以30年代瑞典为背景，经济大萧条所的情绪来建构影片的基调。第二是政治色彩。几十年来人的愚昧，麻木和逃避为一种强权的产生汇集了能量，这种能量散发的结果就是对人长期拥有的自由平等的权利进行疯狂的扼杀。这部影片在最后引入了宗教对人类的拯救，寓意十足，耐人寻味。。
