Film Review 'The Modern Time'

                                                                   

On 29th June we had a movie screening of 'The Modern Time' by one of the greatest Comedian Charlie Chaplin at the Department of English MK Bhavnagar University. I am a literature student and presently I am studying Modern literature so, to know the mood and the theme of the Modern literature students must know about contemporary issues of the Age. Hence, this movie is great example to understand the Modern Time.

'The Modern Time' is 1936 American comedy film Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which Chaplin shows us about the industrialization how factories make people machines. This film Ironically satire on industrialization. There are two ,main characters Chaplin as Tramp and Paulette Goddard as gamin. Both are living as per their name meaning. Film begins with a hope of basic need Roti, Kapda and Makan and end also with a hope. The plot of the film is well knitted in which Chaplin works as factory worker and the poor and orphan girl named Ellen Peterson is like burglar because of her poverty. So, we can say that here Chaplin show us about the poverty in America even known as power house or new world.That is why people feel happy to be imprisoned instead of freedom because people have no employment to live.

Unemployment also was the issue of  America. We can see in one of the scene of the film in which crowd of people rushed for a few vacancies in factory and also the factory workers used to strike against factory owners so we can think that how people molested by factory owners.

Overall, the plot and characters are well knitted and film is silent but its music is superb to understand everything. Chaplin was a master to tell the real issues through comic way that is why he has receive many awards to show reality in such a way.

Here, the movie also symbolize new hope through road journey in which Chaplin wants to tell that pursuit of happiness and quest of new hope.