Modern Times
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"Modern Times" is a 1936 comedy film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin that satirizes the dehumanizing effects of industrial factory work and mass production. The film matters as a landmark of silent cinema and social commentary that uses humor to critique how modern machinery and assembly-line labor can reduce workers to mere cogs in a system.
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Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie satirical slapstick comedy film produced, scored, co-edited, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film also stars Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.
Modern Times has won many awards and honors, and is widely considered one of the greatest films ever. It was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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