Chaplin is worthy of being a master of a generation, and his works are very connotative and worthy of repeated viewing. This film shows more the sorrow of the people at the bottom. They are already poor enough and reduced to cheap labor, and the capitalists have not spared the slightest time to squeeze their surplus value. The working people are poor and tired, like donkeys beaten by whips, exploited all the time, and the protagonists would rather go to jail than go to a factory, which expresses the irony of the capitalists most vividly.
In my heart, the most advanced part of the movie is: in the silent film era, there is already a surveillance device, and I really have to admire the director and screenwriter. But after watching this silent film, I really don't want to watch another silent film. I'm used to the sound world. Watching this kind of silent film is really exhausting.
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