If it weren't for the appearance of the heroine in the second half, the whole drama would be so cold and sharp that people can't stand it
In the first half of the factory, the off-white mechanical gear and parts workers are a total black allegory
Compared with the first half of the various "famous scenes", I prefer the second half (), the barefooted homeless girl behind the corner of the police station, waiting to surprise another homeless person, she said she found a home. While waiting again, she danced barefoot on the street by the door, the children with messy hair looked at her, the big-bellied boss with a gold pocket watch in his pocket stared at her, she was beautiful without knowing it, but it made her even more charming . Who can look away from her dazzling body?
Chaplin's shoes, his typical bulging oversized leather shoes. It's funny, lame demeanor, embarrassed reserved, awkward, I think. It seems to reveal that what he didn't realize was that he always wanted to integrate into the mainstream every time he hit a wall, but that dividing line has not changed or shaken. He doesn't have the right path. He wanted to go to prison, he wanted to stay there, and the girl outside the wall was waiting for him to come out and gave him a reason to come out. Whether the reason is strong or not, he just needs a reason.
The first half of the girl has been barefoot. I think this design is simply wonderful. It is of course embarrassment, poverty. But also flexible and gentle. Dancing barefoot on the gears of industrial society, this elf brings a little light-transmitting gap to the black fairy tale, always finding a little softness. It also revealed the homeless situation of the homeless.
The heroine was lying on the rock, facing the camera with a face full of anger and confusion. What is she angry about? Can her anger be vented, destroyed, or burnt, and results? All this is unknown. Also unknown is her question. Did the hero answer her question? He didn't, maybe he didn't know in this age that was doomed to get no results, or maybe the answer didn't make any sense to the wandering people. He just encouraged her, with warmth and strength, and this is also the power of no solution. Some are like living for the sake of living in "Alive", and working hard to the end is nothing but hard work.
Why did Chaplin add love to "Modern Times"? In the cold and hard industrial society, in the rapid rotation and rolling of gears, people are just fertilizers for other people's desires, but no one can fight the smell of gasoline Dynamo-flavored desire. What's left after the crushing, or maybe something? The answer he gave us seemed to be love. In this too cheap, too cold, too suffocating black background too extravagant, too romantic, too tender, love like gold. This arrangement is a cruel comfort.
Do the male and female lead really understand each other? have no idea. All I can say is that they probably didn't read themselves, and the two of them were so similar, the front and back of the flame. In this world, there is no way to go, where are they going with their home? The hazy answer is sad. The writer seems to be aware of this, and he puts the heroine in shoes and lets the two of them hit the road together. It seems to convey to us again: buck up, back up without reason or without hope, is the only way out of no way out.
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