Why is Modern Times a rare film?

Chaplin's films are mostly black and white silent films, and there are also a few black and white audio films. Chaplin likes to use comedy to express the sadness of social reality, and to increase the sense of comedy through exaggeration. In his films, the foreground and panorama are used most, because Chaplin thinks that the close-ups and close-ups of the foreground and panorama are more suitable for comedy. Another reason why Chaplin uses vision and panorama in his films is that his films are silent and he needs body language to express his joy. Every cell in his body is moving and making joy. Modern Times is a classic of all his films.

1) Modern Charlie, wearing overalls, stands beside a long rotating conveyor belt. His movements are mechanical and simple. He held a wrench in his hand and tightened the screws of the parts from the belt. Parts spread quickly and the next worker hit them with a hammer. The conveyor belt does not give the workers a second free time. Even if you go to the bathroom, you have to wait for the foreman to change it. Even if they go to the toilet, they can't squat down, and the rude voice of the boss's foreman urges them to come again. The monotonous mechanized labor finally made Charlie nervous, and he made a series of jokes.

2) Heroines who are squeezed crazy by capitalists are always stupid at work, losing their father, stealing because of hunger, and having to wander in the metropolis because they have no place to live. How absurd the reality is, how beautiful and tenacious their humanity is. Even if it is just a cabin with broken roof and broken floor, they still manage their own warmth and happiness with heart. Since they met and fell in love, they have never left. When they have to wander to the end again, they are still holding hands and moving towards a new life in the future full of vitality and hope.

3) I will never forget the scene where the hero Charlie was rolled in and out by the machine, and the scene where the tool man who was numb by the assembly line tried to tighten nuts on people's noses and buttons. At the beginning of the clock, the close-up of gear operation clearly described the mechanized social order in the society at that time. Although the historical background described in his films is the era when capitalism gradually moved towards monopoly in the 1930s, that era was tragic for the lower classes in capitalist countries. Facing the arrival of the machine age, they can only feel at a loss.