The Modernist
This movie is based on the life of a
worker in a factory in the Modern times. The main protagonist and director of
the movie is Charlie Chaplin, here through this movie he tried to show the depraved
condition of the people of those times. He through this movie showed how the
people of those times became unlike “machines”. It seemed that the people couldn’t do
anything according to oneself; they just became mere puppets in the hands of the powerful
people.
At first, we can see an image of a clock,
which showed that with its single stroke how people start their day without
thinking anything. Here we can also sense how unemployment leads people to
greed and incompetence. It can be well seen through the gamin girl named Ellen,
who in order to survive steals food from different places for her brothers, sister
and an unemployed father. As Chaplin was a poor boy in the movie he couldn’t
raise his voice against the wrongs and while working in the factory his mindset
became such that without tools in his hands he used to turn the bolts of the
plates. This movie satirically showcased
the shrewd fact of unemployment which leads to misery in starting of the Modern
Age.
The Great Dictator
This is another produced by Charlie Chaplin
which satirizes the rule of Adolf Hitler. In this movie he played dual
personalities and roles that are one of a Jewish barber and another of Hitler. It is about the conflict between two communities that are Jews and
Aryans. Here the poor barber survived in a bad condition because people thought
him as Hitler. It showcased the rule of Hitler which devastated the whole of
the place.
At the end of his
speech he asked people not to fight for slavery, whereas, fight for “Liberty”.
It is so because liberty a man can’t take with him if he wants after his death
even one wants; it stays in a particular culture for forever if it gets imbibed
in it once.
Lastly, after
watching these two movies from my own perspective I want to say that- until and
unless we decide to get crucified in the hands of the powerful people, none can
crucify us.
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