Pauline Godai has a pair of smart and beautiful big eyes, and she smiles brightly. Stealing bananas on the pier while hungry, waiting for Chaplin to be released from prison at the corner, leaning against the wall with his back against the wall, thinking about his feet like a vigilant deer, as if he was found by the police and ready to run away. With bare feet, she runs faster than a rabbit, interpreting the image of a homeless girl very smart and cute. Pauline Godai is actually a good match for Chaplin. The two have similar personalities and talents. It's a pity that they didn't go to the end. Chaplin's schoolgirl's ecstatic and dancing appearance is super cute, which makes the heroine laugh back and forth. I feel that Chaplin's comics imitate the attitude of young girls. Because of this, there is a kind of innocent and cute cuteness. People can not help laughing.
The moving fantasy about home in the film is that after the two escaped, they sat on the grass in front of their house, dreaming that they would have a home. The protagonist played by Chaplin imagines that there are bunches of grapes outside the house, which can be picked and eaten at any time. When he wants to eat milk, he will bring the cow over and take a glass of milk. The hostess makes the steak, and the two of them sit around the table. , a scene of a happy and prosperous life.
The most exciting part of the movie is of course the scene where the protagonist makes a scene in the workshop after his mental breakdown in the factory. Wearing overalls, the petite Chaplin looks like a lively and lovely little girl. After the mental breakdown, he released himself in the workshop. . In addition to twisting everyone's nose with pliers, he is rolled into the huge gears in the workshop. Although the movie is humorous and relaxed, the protagonist swims in the gears like a small fish, but in reality, these Steel machinery is entwined with flesh and blood, often in gory accidents and loss of life.
Even if the protagonist goes to the toilet or runs out of the workshop, he can't forget to punch in. This is very similar to today's office workers. The strict attendance system makes people tense as if they are on a string, and their nervous functions are mechanized. Regarding the "Taylor System" and "Ford System" implemented in the American industrial era to strictly monitor the work efficiency of workers, just like the current KPI assessment, they often not only do it, but also have their wages deducted because of the so-called low work efficiency.
The protagonist finally collapsed under the impetus of the crazy work rhythm. Chaplin made a big noise in the mechanical workshop and performed more like a dance, which made people laugh. Most modern human beings are gradually depressed in the cubicle, like a toy with a broken screw inside. It is broken from the inside and cannot be seen from the outside. Only he himself knows that he has turned into a beetle like the one in Kafka's novels. The person with the thick shell is broken, the string is broken, and the spiritual place is blocked.
But the mental breakdown is cured, and there is no food to eat without work. The protagonist asks the warden to keep him for a while longer, and he feels so happy here. Who likes to go to jail? But the protagonist who emerges from the frenzied and tense workshop finds the prison very happy.
Continue to work like a robot? Or go to jail? The protagonist chooses a prison. The doctor told him to go out to relax, but going out to face the same nervous and crazy world, I thought the protagonist would go crazy again. Because going to work can result in another mental breakdown that cannot be cured.
This is a difficult problem for modern people. Is it to be squeezed and forced to be a screw that will be replaced sooner or later in the production line of the industrial age, and finally break down, or take out the workshop and go to prison? Survive? Or death? This is an eternal topic. For modern people, in addition to being a specific role given by society, to maintain survival, or to get rid of the bondage, is it a dazed wanderer to become a marginal wanderer or a regular visitor to the prison like the protagonist?
If you don't have food on strike, you will go crazy at work. This is a topic worth discussing.
At the recommendation of the heroine, the protagonist became a waiter in a restaurant, surrounded by a tidal wave of dancing crowds, holding the roast duck requested by the guests, but could not reach the table. The protagonist is like a bottle drifting in a sea of people, undulating with the waves. In the tide of the times, being wrapped involuntarily, drifted towards an inexplicable place. This ill-fated roast duck finally returned to the hands of the guests, which is really ironic.
The film ends with the hero and heroine being chased, wandering and moving forward. From the beginning, the heroine is a stubborn and unyielding wild girl who is fearless and unyielding. She has been hit by setbacks, and everything starts again, for the dream of a beautiful home. Survival games are the eternal urban stories of modern modern people. What troubles modern people is the problem of unemployment and survival, and it is also a modern global problem.
The thermal water bottle used by the workers in the movie, the advanced gear operation system in the production workshop, and the conditions of the operation workshop will give you a side view of the social and economic development level of the United States at that time. The living standard is not low, at least the level of industrial development in China. 50 years ahead.
The modern western economy is declining, and the unemployment rate of young people is high because they are too efficient and go too fast? After all prosperity, there is always a stage of stagnation. Will people in the modern age be happy?
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