Modern Times

The movie “Modern Times” dealt with the power of the modern
machine, its power, its enslavement to the efforts of workers, and the
capitalists’ control over the life and comfort of the labor force. From
a social point of view, when we discuss the main points of the movie,
we see that the story of the movie revolves around Charlie Chaplin,
who works in a train factory on a moving tape whose speed exceeds
the speed of the worker. The factory owner monitors the factory
departments and the progress of work using cameras installed in his
office, and when Charlie wants to smoke a cigarette, the factory owner
catches him red-handed, rebukes him, and orders him to return to
work. Through the simple movements that Charlie performs, he alerts
the world to the power of the machine and its lack of regard for human
effort. Indeed, in some cases, the rapid series of work carries him with
the products. Chaplin, in his own way, of course, warned against the
tyranny of “mechanization” or the extensive use of complex machines
in industry as a substitute for workers. In order to increase production,
and how the character of the era has become speed in everything,
which Chaplin expresses brilliantly in the scenes that show how his
hero’s mind has become programmed automatically, so we see him
moving in a continuous worm motion, trying in a sarcastic scene to
fasten the buttons of a robe for a woman in the street using a machine.
Which he uses in the factory from which he fled after completely
losing control of himself!
Capitalist exploitation was one of the film's main links to sociology,
as Chaplin mocked capitalist exploitation, depicting the tyranny of
factory owners and how the worker became a small cog in the huge
wheel of modern industry. Charlie spots a demonstration of workers
protesting against capitalist exploitation. It is clearly a communist
demonstration. The red flag falls from the hands of one of the
workers. Charlie picks it up and tries to join the crowd, trying to
return the flag to the man, but the police arrest him as the leader of
the striking workers.

Also, the class division is discussed or plays an important role in this

film. The class division and the difficulties faced by the working class
from a social perspective. Issues of class differences and class conflict
play out in a scene expressed by Chaplin that was closer to the socialist
vision, in its demands for social equality and the distribution of
wealth, through the girl. She used to steal to eat with her deprived
brothers

In conclusion, Charlie Chaplin was able to summarize the crisis

between man and machine in industrial society through his film
Modern Times, and it was able to be a produced a concept that stripped
man of his humanity, which is human mechanization.

İsim: Hamida Tash

Öğrenci No: 5220204028