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.。萬念俱灰的Noely回到紐約兜售聖誕樹,他在寒冷的冬夜販賣幸福,卻是離歡樂的聖誕氣息最遙遠的人;各種冷漠、詭異的客人來來去去,壓垮他對人性的最後一絲信念,絕望與漫長冬季急著分食,直到他意外幫助了公園裡的神秘女孩,她溫暖的存在是否能將Noely從爛掉的人生中拉回?。