1. A flock of sheep appears in the beginning of the film, followed by a crowd. The two are in contrast, implying that workers are like livestock, only to be stripped.
2. The lens is transferred to the factory. The capitalist has nothing to do, puzzles, reads the newspaper, and talks to get by.
3. The invention of assembly line technology not only accelerates work efficiency, but also greatly accelerates the rate at which workers are exploited. The speed of the assembly line in the film is exaggerated, which intensifies the serious irony of the problem of exploitation in the early stages of capitalism.
4. The surveillance of the factory owners in the film is almost absent in real life. The plot arrangement of the film undoubtedly implies that exploitation is everywhere.
5. The automatic feeding machine and the Qikuai assembly line have the same effect. In the beginning, the feeding machine worked normally, much like the gentle appearance of capitalism at the time. Later, the automatic feeding machine failed. The automatic feeding machine made it more like a compulsory feeding machine. It also implied the ugliness of capitalism during the primitive accumulation of capital. When experimenting with the feeding machine in the movie, there is a small detail. Charlie is forced to be fixed in front of the dinner plate. This is very similar to the forced feeding of animals on a farm. The intention to ridicule the serious exploitation is also obvious.
6. The speed of work is controlled by the boss, which reflects the serious inequality in status.
7. Charlie's mental breakdown in the factory is one of the most exciting clips in the film. This is not so much a manifestation of Charlie's morbid occupational disease, as it is Zhuo's joyous laughter and fierce struggle against the entire industrial civilization and capitalism. It's hilarious, but it's also very happy! However, in the end, Charlie was impatient with being uniformed by the police, indicating that the working class could not fight against the capitalists after all. It may be possible for a while, but it will eventually fail. This is a historical inevitability.
8. After being discharged from the hospital, the film uses mixed theory, inverted images and metallic soundtracks to show outstanding works of industrial civilization. Here is a paradox. The creators of industrial civilization were frightened and helpless at their outstanding works. This is quite similar to the phenomenon of migrant workers in contemporary China.
9. There is such a line in the movie when Charlie was released from prison for the first time. "Well, you're a free man." I personally think this line is ironic. Is it possible that a homeless man like Charlie is free when he gets out of prison? Quoting Tang Seng Luo Jiaying’s line in "A Westward Journey", "Why go out, outside is just a bigger prison", the plot behind it also fully proves that Charlie just got into a bigger prison after he was released. Freedom is For people like Charlie, it has always been nothingness.
10. After being released from prison, Charlie could not adapt to society, so there was a line like "Dtermined to go back to jail" and he was determined to return to prison. At this time, the prison has become a pure land. , Became the only place suitable for Charlie’s life. The irony is self-evident!
11, This movie has two main lines, one is the tramp Charlie, the other is the tramp girl. The image of Charlie represents that period of ignorance. The working class, the vagrants represent the families of unemployed and poor workers, who have nothing to rely on, living like animals in the reinforced concrete urban jungle.
12. This section in the shopping mall is where Charlie and the vagrants are closest to their dreams in the film So it can be regarded as a beautiful dream. The scene is set in the shopping mall at night, so the audience and the protagonist in the film naturally have the same heart, that is, they are worried that the dream will be broken at any time, which also makes this beautiful dream more a unrest.
13, the plot of about skating at the mall. this episode is worth pondering, but with limited personal viewing capability, can not think, can only seek the watercress great God, the following explanation. Charlie in Mongolia The eyes are very smooth, and they can always avoid danger in a thrilling manner. This implies that the working class did not have a clear understanding of their miserable life at the time, and did not know the sinisterness of capitalism, as long as it had not "fallen" or "opened". "Open your eyes" and you can accept all this in a daze.
14. I can't write the last section of the cafe, ask the expert to add...
The phrase says "This film is about the conflict between individual enterprises and the pursuit of happiness in the industrial age." This theme is doomed to the classic status of this movie. Chaplin's talents far exceed those of his contemporaries. His works have penetrated deep into the fabric of capitalist society and have the effect of analyzing reality and deafening. Not much to say, classic! Grandmaster!
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