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User Comments for: Modern Times

soonertbone says...
2 years ago
For me, this is a perfect mix of all Chaplin does best: wonderful comic sequences combined with emotion that will absolutely wreck you. Here, it's often predicated on a meta-textual in-joke (that is heightened on this watch having just watched 100 pre-1936 movies in a row) that the modern, sound-based world is coming for the silent Tramp. I love the use of sound effects and dialogue, and how it contributes to a world that the Tramp can't understand or effectively navigate. It heightens the comedy, but it hits you like a gut punch by the end. Concludes with one of my all-time favorite final shots--just doesn't get better.
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