Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215389)
Chile
March 18, 2016 2:26pm CST
I always turn on the TV when I lie down for a moment. Usually I see boring reruns but I relax and sometimes fall asleep.
Not so today. I had the TV a channel that shows old movies and I had the pleasure of watching Modern Tomes with Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.
The movie belongs to the time of the silent movie. But the actors make up for the lack of words as they are also mimos and dancers.
The plot is timeless: the problem of our times where men have lost their posibility of being happy. The first pictures shows it all: a herd of pigs goint to the market and then, immediatly, a lot of people getting out of the subway towards their job.
I don´t think the movie is in Netflix, but I´m sure they have it in YouTube.
I recomend it.
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5 responses
@marguicha (215389)
• Chile
18 Mar 16
For me Chaplin does more than entertain. He makes us think of us as human beings. His movies are quite profound.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
18 Mar 16
@marguicha You are right,it is a good one.There are many Charles Chaplin movies we can watch again and again.
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@marguicha (215389)
• Chile
18 Mar 16
I Have seen The great dictator several times and I am always moved by it. I think that he was very brave to make the film at the time he did it. I hadn´t seen this one for many decades and it is still modern.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
19 Mar 16
@marguicha Is it in Modern times,he sings and dances in a hotel even though he had lost the song he has written down?I still remember him singing with made up words.
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@marguicha (215389)
• Chile
20 Mar 16
@silvermist It is a bar and yes. That part is wonderful! And just as her finishes the song with applause and the owner will give him a job, the cops come to get the girl
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@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
18 Mar 16
Sounds like something to really check out.
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@marguicha (215389)
• Chile
20 Mar 16
@softbabe44 I usually have youTube when I´m at my computer. I put on some music and shut off the sounds on other windows.
@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
19 Mar 16
@marguicha You tube is a pretty good place to go to do a lot of stuff.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
18 Mar 16
Glad you could watch something that you enjoy.
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@marguicha (215389)
• Chile
18 Mar 16
I enjoy many kinds of movies. But I love best when movies are art.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Mar 16
Talkies had already taken over but Chaplin initially refused to do them so Modern Times is silent. This is considered one of his greatest efforts. He was married to Paulette Goddard,
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