Movie Review of 'The Modern Times' (1936)

The Modern Times

A movie, 'The Modern Times' is 1936's Socio-Political Satire written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

Title

Title, 'The Modern Times' is very apt and important regarding movie context. Title shows the pride of modernity in itself, it suggesting the modern time/modern culture, modern things, somehow it suggests a human being that there is no space for whom who can't make a synchronization with modern time. So, here our character, Charlie (A Factory Worker) becomes a kind of victim of modern time because he can't able to do a concordance with modernity (Industrialization).  

Situation of poor

Movie shows us that poor people controlled by the factory owner as the employment in their factories is poor' essential need. There is one scene in the movie where Charlie (Factory Worker/poor) used to do an experiment of food feeding machine, here we can find that for the wealthy people, poor are just a kind of objective/thing to do an an experiments.

Machines overpower Human Being.

The main theme of the movie is itself related to an industrialization, a scene in the movie where Charlie swallowed by the machine and other scene shows that Charlie's boss entangled in machine though it is a surreal, but it symbolizes that at what extent machinery controlling the whole race of Human Being and not just the poor people becomes the puppet of machines but the wealthy and authorized can also be one of them. Because of the industries many changes occurred like an increased unemployment and the death of craftsmanship.  

  

The Last Scene.

Last scene of movie is very apt because it represents nature over machinery. It indicate that ultimately only and only nature can make a person delighted. At last the natural tendency of human being becomes superior on industrialization as it seems that Charlie and his friend Gemin get out into the lap of nature from the society and machines.