EditModern Times (1936)

One of the eternal silent film classics, written and directed by the genial Charlie Chaplin. The year is 1936 and his iconic Little Tramp character has a hard time, struggling to survive in the fast paced, industrialized world that is more and more dominated by machines. Being a factory employee working on an assembly line, one day he is forced-fed by a broken “feeding machine” and as a result, our friend gets a nervous breakdown, running out of the factory anf leaving a chaos behind his back. “Modern Times” conveys a strong social and ethical message, asking questions about the place of ordinary people, of humanity in the modern society.