The king of black and white silent films, I think Charlie Chaplin deserves it. Even today, more than seventy years later, the modern era still reflects today's reality. Popular news has been saying that our technology is constantly improving and developing with each passing day. It seems that the Internet is still being studied, and the concept of the metaverse has been caught off guard. But are we really moving forward? Or is it another level of depravity? Chaplin's acting skills have his unique characteristics, and no one has surpassed them so far. He portrayed the image of a low-level civilian during the Great Depression of the United States to the bottom of the wood. Some of his behaviors are so exaggerated that it makes people feel unreasonable, but after laughing, they make people fall into endless deep thinking... A clown or a gentleman, life or an ideal, I think it is not difficult to see from the film that he himself is constantly ruthless Jumping complex tangle. Suddenly I remembered that this time of 20 years was the period I most underestimated, whether it was life or work. At that time, I only wanted to hang up the job card and enter the so-called big factory to be the screw with good news. Thinking about it now, the image at that time should be no different from that of Charlie who worked on the assembly line in the modern era and rolled back and forth between the gears.
At the end of the film, the master sang in person, which is indeed a highlight of the entire silent film, and also marked the most perfect footnote for his last silent film.
In the end, that man and woman walked hand in hand on a road with no head and tail, is there any hope? Not necessarily, but we would rather believe that the future is as good as the lives of each of us.
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