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Modern Times (1936)
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Machines and institutional routines keep asking Chaplin's body to operate at the wrong speed. The gags make work organisation visible before any historical explanation is needed. A later silent-style film with music, effects and some voices, it is not wholly silent; its selective use of sound is part of the invention.
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About Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...