Modern Times

Watched this Charlie Chaplin movie on Movies Now Channel.
Decades back my father had brought video cassatte of this movie along with Laurel and Hardy movie and I have watched this movie several times using VCR in my childhood.
Watching it on TV made my memories fresh.
I mean isnt this movie wonderful.
Every frame of the movie is so great every scene is so great.
This should be the best movie ever and all the citizens of the world should see it.
It shows the view of the world in 1936. Let us see at that time the world had just emerged from the Great depression. Anti communism feeling was at its peak in the world and that gave rise to Nazism.
I mean there are so many points in the movie.

• How man (and woman) spirit to improve their existence and survive against forces which try to tie them up always exist.
• How people get exploited for capitalism is shown in the movie
• Charlie Chaplin was a God compared to film makers today. He was not racist he was practical. In one scene he dreams of having steak meat and a cow comes along and he draws milk from the cow and has it along with the meat. I kinda got reminded of Kosher laws where I believe milk and meat should not be combined while eating. Well I am not aware of the same. Just gave it a passing thought.
• Charlie Chaplin knew of the problems of the world. And he painted it in the movie. The problems faced by westerners are still there today. And in any urban industrial centers the problems would be the same be it in whichever country.
• After seeing the movie we know that a world without Second World War would have been great. The Second World War was the war which changed the destiny of the world. It led to the emergence of USSR and US and decline of Great Britain and rise of the "free countries" in Asia and Africa.
• Second World War proved devastating for the world. Talent like Charlie Chaplin got supressed at the time of the "Red Scare" where people were suspected to be Communist agents.
• The Cold War did more harm than good for the World I feel.
• By watching a movie like Modern Times we get a feeling of where our world could have headed if there was no Second World War.