When it comes to silent cinema, I don't have much experience with it. But thanks mostly in part to a friend of mine for introducing me to "Metropolis" about a couple years ago (Now one of my favorite films of all time), I've always wanted to see more.

So I figured after reviewing nothing recent works, I'd take a step back in time to talk about some forms of film I've always wanted to get a better eye on, and what better way to start then with what many would probably call the master of silent cinema, Charlie Chaplin?

"Modern Times" marks my first impressions with the man, and they're fairly good you could say. It follows him as a…

I love animated films, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them, but I remember when my daughter exclusively watched only that genre at a very young age and I was thinking to myself, at what point can I show her more? When will she be ready to explore cinema beyond talking animals and snappy songs?

While she has been beyond that point for a while now, something happened the other day while watching the Charlie Chaplin masterpiece Modern Times that I was not anticipating. There I am, lying on the couch mesmerized by the film when I realized I wasn't alone. Not in the literal sense, I knew the soon to be seven year old was sitting across the…

I should start this review with these lines: “A tramp more shining than a lamp – Is all I thought since I was kid – More polite than any kind; more clean and honest and truth than any elegant gentleman dressed with fancy hat and using long canes for his roaring period; a poor man with gentle soul under the light of the cities. A noble man. -- My plan was to write this after watching City Lights. And I DM to my friend and I message to him: “look, what I wrote right now…” and he said to me “great lines” – But, I decided to not review City Lights (I love but I’m not so familiar with it.…

Modern Times 1936
عصر جدید ۱۹۳۶

هرروز دنیای جدید به وجود می‌آید و روزبه‌روز جدیدتر می‌شود اما چیست این روزگار نو و عصری مدرن که رخ‌داده تا #چاپلین مدرنیست بر سر آن شکایت کند و خود را در چرخ‌دنده‌های تکنولوژی ببینید، مگر خود سینما، تکنولوژی مدرن نیست؟

آنچه ما را وادار می‌کند تا انتها این فیلم خنده‌دار را با پایانی غم‌انگیز ببینیم و تکلیفمان را با کمدی و تراژدی نفهمیم حس زندگی واقعی است که در ما جاری و ساری است تا چیزی که امروز باعث رنجش ما است فردا خنده بر لبان می‌آورد. فیلم آینه آینده زندگی بشر است : به عصر جدید خوش‌آمدید.

باآنکه شاید ندانید چند بار این فیلم را دیده‌اید ولی #پیشنهاد_میکنم دوباره این فیلم ابزورد…