My Review of Modern Times

In my opinion, Modern Times is actually a very entertaining work of cinema, despite it being a silent film. What I enjoyed the most about this film was its incorporation of comedy into a movie where the protagonist is constantly  enduring hardship. This in itself allowed the audience of that time, as well as myself, to be able to relate to and enjoy the movie; although the audience of 1936 probably lived a harder life. I also greatly appreciated the fact that Charlie Chaplin performed his own stunts for the sake of entertainment. Another thing that I enjoyed was Charlie Chaplin's use of symbolism and metaphors throughout the movie to display the modern problems society faced during 1936. One of the things that I am somewhat unsatisfied with is that Charlie Chaplin made the movie a silent film when he very well could have had sound in the film. I am very interested in knowing what the little tramp or the gamin sounded like, but I suppose none of us will ever know. Overall, Modern Times was a fantastic movie.