Modern Times (1936)
Country: US
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Synopsis:
A tramp and a waif despair at the inhuman functionality of the world around them and decide to drop out.
Review:
Chaplin's sentimental espousal of the lot of the common man here acquired a more political dimension that was considered decidedly unAmerican a decade later: fancy satirising the great production line economy! It concludes with such a classic image that you quickly forget how loosely connected and variably funny the preceding ninety minutes were, but then the star's early comedies were never strong on narrative unity and the real delight is the conception and balletic interpretation of his imaginative comic set pieces.
Country: US
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Synopsis:
A tramp and a waif despair at the inhuman functionality of the world around them and decide to drop out.
Review:
Chaplin's sentimental espousal of the lot of the common man here acquired a more political dimension that was considered decidedly unAmerican a decade later: fancy satirising the great production line economy! It concludes with such a classic image that you quickly forget how loosely connected and variably funny the preceding ninety minutes were, but then the star's early comedies were never strong on narrative unity and the real delight is the conception and balletic interpretation of his imaginative comic set pieces.
Country: US
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Synopsis:
A tramp and a waif despair at the inhuman functionality of the world around them and decide to drop out.
Review:
Chaplin's sentimental espousal of the lot of the common man here acquired a more political dimension that was considered decidedly unAmerican a decade later: fancy satirising the great production line economy! It concludes with such a classic image that you quickly forget how loosely connected and variably funny the preceding ninety minutes were, but then the star's early comedies were never strong on narrative unity and the real delight is the conception and balletic interpretation of his imaginative comic set pieces.