Movie Review: Charlie Chaplin's The Modern Times and The Great Dictators

The Modern Times:

 Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin

 Director: Charlie Chaplin

 Review:

Often considered a one of the many acclaimed works of Chaplin, the modern times captures the struggles of a tramp, in a modern industrialized world. Chaplin with his amazing sense of humour satirizes the inequalities and injustices prevailing in the modern institutions."The film is a comment on the desperate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created in Chaplin's view by the efficiencies of modern industrialization."

To read the plot of the movie click here.

The Great Dictator:

Cast:

Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Review: The film presents Chaplin as, as both a 'ruthless fascist dictator' as well as a 'persecuted Jewish barber'. As is the case with Chaplin, his film comments on the state of dictatorship as well as the political scenario of the time; because of which many innocent lives suffered. To have an overview of the plot click here.

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