During the economic depression, Charlie worked day after day in a factory, and eventually suffered a mental breakdown and was sent to a mental hospital. After he came out, he went to prison or lost his job because of a series of misunderstandings, but he rescued the homeless girl. , and lived with her, but the homeless girl was hunted down. After a series of setbacks in life, the two regained their spirits and looked for a way out elsewhere. 1. It depicts the reality of the Great Depression at that time through the fragments of the factory, and satirizes the alienation of people oppressed by capitalists. At the beginning, the clips of the sheep coming out of the cage and the people walking into the factory were edited together. The wool came out of the sheep, and the montage technique was used to hint. As a homeless heroine, she is generous, kind, sincere, kind, and beautiful. The contrast between the office and the factory interior also highlights this theme. The parades, strikes and other scenes are very contemporary. 2. One of the main features is the trouble caused by the inertia of repetitive movements, such as fragments of twisted screws. 3. Classic gear screen, structuralist features. 4. Improvised comedic moves, such as a slap on the shoulder when he deliberately sags. Comedy features: Comedy is brought about by a series of small troubles and small actions, and often the whole story is more tragic and the story is not strong. It also embodies the character of Charlie, who does not solve problems but briefly bypasses and avoids problems, while also never looking ahead (like several prison clips). 5. Sometimes Charlie also uses shaky to create comedy, such as skating, serving dishes, dodging bullets, often very thrilling but subtly with good luck. The igloo in The Gold Rush also has this feature. 6. Charlie's most stable life is in prison. Charlie and the heroine have been frustrated again and again, as if it was an arrangement of fate, which is ironic to the current society. 7. Small stature, large items, such as pieces of suitcases, and large shoes with logo. 8. Charlie's constant character highlights (especially in the love scene): sincere, gentle and polite. 9. Silent films go well with physically exaggerated action comedies. 10. The episode of feeding the meal at the beginning and the episode of Charlie feeding the engineer at the end are all accidents caused by the machine locking the human, which are quite subtle echoes. Like the bosses speeding up the robot workers to go mad, it's the machines that control the people, not the people who control the machines.
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