Some people say that "City Lights" is Chaplin's last silent film, but I still think this "Modern Times" is the final piece of Chaplin's silent film era. Looking back at the filming years of "Modern Times", we have to admire the power of Chaplin. This film was produced in 1935. At this time, Hollywood was already the world of sound movies. Silent movies were on the verge of withdrawing from the stage of history. Partial color films were also born this year. This is an era of rapid development of filmmaking technology. But many people always cling to something and refuse to give up. This does not mean that they are staid! Just like Enya in the music industry, Chaplin used his "Modern Times" to prove to us the greatness of this persistence. Chaplin always believes that the expression of body language is the true essence of film art, and this concept is still very instructive in today's big explosion of film technology. Under Chaplin's insistence, "Modern Times" blocked the dialogue just like a traditional silent movie, leaving only a few sound and background vocals. It also proved that the classics will not lose their color because of their form.
People are now admiring the greatness of this movie, but they don’t know that after the movie was released, it caused a tsunami-level controversy, because the irony in the film was pungent and sharp, and the sympathy for the workers at the bottom was obvious, and it was also ugly to a certain extent. The image of the capital owner. Naturally, it caused groups of international capital forces to counterattack, and many commentators either accidentally or deliberately distorted the comments, resulting in the film’s profound reflection of the social problems at the time being completely ignored, instead it was recognized as a dangerous red communist tendency. work. But the truth will never be buried by the world. After time has passed, this work is still recognized as a classic of film and television. It is not only a personal breakthrough of Chaplin, but the film surpasses other tragic characteristics that simply use his personal characteristics as a selling point. The theme works instead reflect some important issues in society at that time. As far as the development of the entire film industry is concerned, the filmmakers who were technically supreme at that time saw the core of what a film should have. ()
