1936 Directed by Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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EASILY my favorite from Chaplin. Can't tell you how good it feels to genuinely love one of his films rather than just appreciate it. Everything about this is great.
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…
5 of the 1001 movies before you die list.
How can one man make such an amazing film. The bit where he goes through the machine and you see all the cogs, just mad.
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i actually enjoyed this more than i thought i would, and i found myself to like and to be much more enamored with charlie chaplin than i originally imagined that i would be. he's a lot more lovable, charming and comical than i would've pictured, and it's pretty amazing that he wrote, directed and starred in this film all at the same time. i also like the social critique of "modern times", and what it means for society to make changes that can sometimes feel drastic to us, when we're set in things being a certain way. this has changed my mind a bit on silent films actually being able to be good, so i'm glad for that!
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.…
Such an enjoyable, immersive and thoughtful film - truly one of the finest comedies ever created. I'd definitely call this my personal favorite Chaplin film.
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(Food pairing: Irish Beef and Guinness Stew)
(Beer pairing: Odell 90 Schilling Ale)
96/100
Chaplin's iconic incarnation of the 'The Tramp' is one of the most beloved characters in film history, and this is by far my favorite 'Tramp' film in the series.
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) is the final film to feature the great actor/director/writer's most easily recognizable incarnation. Here is a character that is so ingrained in the collective consciousness of modern film that many recognize him despite the fact that they have not seen a single Chaplin film.
Despite the film's status as one of the greatest comedies of all-time, it is hard to ignore the political component. In his movies, Chaplin often exhibited a great mistrust for authority and progress, as often embodied through the social elite, the…
For my first feature length Chaplin, this was a good time! The song towards the end really made the whole movie for me, that was phenomenal. Just the way he walks oozes charm and comedy. Can’t wait to watch more (I think next I’ll try City Lights).
8/10
Chaplin is of course extremely dated, and Modern Times is essentially a series of sketches of varying quality united by a loose plotline. This makes it difficult to fully enjoy. But the satirical brilliance of the film is still very much apparent. The sections on work and automation are almost unmatched in anything I've seen made since. Most impressive is how Chaplin brutally and entertainingly rips the piss out of both enormous problems with the entire economic system (automation, corporate surveillance, government oppression) and small but important aspects of everyday working life (lunch etiquette, letters of recommendation). So despite its problems this is very much still relevant and well worth seeing.
talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before.
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