`Modern Times` Movie Review

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In this time of fast paced technology , increase in population and poverty all over the world , a movie entitled Modern Times illustrates how a factory worker strive hard to survive and struggled to make it through the toughest times of his life 'Modern Times implies how poverty is present in 1930 's and of course still very present in our society today . Charlie Chaplin illustrates in the movie the fight of a poor man in his pursuit to happiness . He implies to its viewers how mass production affects the lives of

people who work for factories just like what he portrayed in the movie

Charlie Chaplin was a factory worker , working for a Big Boss ' who demands him to work more and do nothing other than his work . In one scene , he had a nervous breakdown and was cured in a hospital . He left the hospital with only himself being unemployed . Upon leaving the hospital , he saw a red flag and picked it up . Unmindful of the symbol of that flag , he was immediately arrested by the police and was mistakenly accused of being a communist leader . He then realized that the life in prison is easier than his life outside . In jail , he was assigned in a separate place where he can read a news everyday while outside he didn 't have any except himself . He was immediately released but reality strikes him up and felt the need of going back to the jail . He met a gamin (Paulette Goddard ) while intentionally having a ploy for her to get in jail but instead the lady was arrested for stealing bread . And so he did everything he can as to immediately go back to jail and was successful at the second attempt ing a very large meal that he knew he cannot pay and was arrested by the police . In jail , he met again the gamin and automatically became friends with her

Coming from same anxieties and frustrations in life they both dream to have a house that they can live together . In there quest to a better life they both caught themselves in a much harsh and challenging life outside . They have been trying to get a job and amidst the trials that they must endure , Charlie Chaplin did very well in portraying his comedic act in such a way that his audience can relate to him . In his most natural act he justifies his role even with less talk and more actions

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Indeed , his craft not just only signifies a life of a factory worker but it also signifies the reality that has had an effect in each society not only in that time but primarily in our present time today

Mass production is obviously shown in the film and how it pertains to the factory workers . At a time of developed machines and devices , these factory workers are in need to work on a uniformed way as to not waste time for production . It was...