Industralization & Love

The movie “Modern Times” by Charles Chaplin, show us, in a funny way, how people’s life was in the time of Modernity. In the movie we can see how people fought to get a job in the big industries that had started to exist in those times.

The first scene of the movie, really called my attention, because it shows a sheep cattle running and then all those sheeps became into persons. With this image we can infer that “the big boss of the industries” did not care about the worker, they were saw as animals, that is why the workers in those times had so bad conditions in the places where they had to work and where they won a misery as an income.

This movie also show us little of love. There is an orphan girl who is seperated from their sisters, because she is not able to take care of them. She met Chaplin and after a while they fall in love and they decided to work in order to have a home and also because they wanted to have a life without needs, a better life.

Despite of being a Silent Movie, it really takes your attention, because is very realistic in terms of industralization and life conditions. The movie is kind of ironic, because it shows in a funny way the misfortune of two different persons, who are trying to move on in terms of life conditions.

This is the first silent movie that I have seen and also the first movie by Chaplin. I thought that I would not like this kind of movies, because I was going to find them without content and bored, but I was totally wrong; I really enjoy this movie and, for me, was full of content, it was able to capture two very important themes like Love and Industralization.