What is Modern Times telling? What is Modern Times telling?

1. What does Modern Times tell? 1928-1934 was a period of American film transformation. At this time, American industrial production was facing a crisis, and the intensification of domestic class contradictions caused a serious political crisis and economic crisis. At this time, Chaplin wrote, directed and performed Modern Times.

2. In Modern Times, Charlie, dressed in work clothes, stands beside a long rotating conveyor belt. His movements are mechanical and simple. He holds a wrench in his hand and tightens the screws of the parts transmitted from the belt. The parts were passed quickly and the next worker hit them with a hammer. The conveyor belt doesn't give the workers a second to be free, even if they go to the toilet, they have to wait for the foreman to replace them. Even if they go to the toilet, they can't squat down, and the boss's foreman's rude voice is forced to come over. The monotonous mechanized labor finally made Charlie nervous, and he made a series of jokes.

3. Modern Times reveals the essence of American society by analyzing people's unique fate through concrete images. This is an unprecedented initiative in American film history. Chaplin raised realistic pictures to a philosophical level.