Story about Modern Times / The Masses / Temps modernes, Les / 摩登时代
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Ch...
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Chaplin last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turn againt modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firtly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.
