1936 Film Theme: Industrialization, Enterprise and Individual Happiness
"The gap between the rich and the poor, the exploitation of capital, the alienation of individuals", although Chaplin used comical and exaggerated body language to present this theme to maintain the general comedy tone-
I still think of Xu Lizhi.
He is an assembly line worker at Foxconn, and another identity is a working poet who loves literature. He wrote:
I swallow a moon made of iron
they call it a screw
I swallow the waste water of this industry, the orders of unemployment
Those who are below the machine die prematurely
I swallow running, swallow displacement
Swallow the pedestrian bridge, swallow the life covered with rust
I can't take it anymore
All I've ever swallowed is now gushing out of my throat
Paved in a song on the territory of the motherland
poem of shame
Chaplin's final ending in the film is dawn. And Xu Lizhi of the new century ended his young life at the age of 24.
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