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film criticism

FILM CRITICISM:MODERN TIMES &MERCEDES DOCUMENTARY
“Modern Times” is the movie filmed in 1936.Charlie Chaplin is the main character of the movie.In the movie ,production techniques ,its effect on human body,economical crisis such as closed factory,its social effect on the society,unemployment and hunger are mentioned.On the other hand,Mercedes documantry informs about the production techniques,its process and distrubution.
To better understand this two films,comparison is the best way.First of all these movies can be compared with respect to production techniques. In “Modern Times”, production is made by human force.In the process of the production ,human workforce is provided;therefore,itis detected that workers behave as a machinery.In the movie,Charlie Chaplin’s behavior at lunch time shows that as people doing the same thing as a machinery,their motion becomes automatical.Similarly,as they stop for a moment, they expend much more energy to catch the process. On the other hand, In Mercedes documantry,due to the advance of technology,electronic programmable machines are used by qualified workers. However, because of machines replacemant’s instead of human,they causes the decrease in the need of human workforce. Hence,it increases the unemployed people;on the other hand ,technological advance provides more area on the factory;therefore it increases the employed people.Thus employment is balanced.Secondly,as two movies are examined carefully,it is seen that there is a huge difference in the size of the machines.The reason of this is simple: technology. Technological development generally decreases the size of machines.
Another message of the movie “Modern Times” is how the economical crisis affects on the society.In the movie, after closing down factories,it causes the social problem.As I see in the movie it unfortunately increases the number of the crimes because if people cannot find Money by working, to meet their needs they unfortunately apply to steal as the girl in the movie.Similarly,if the girl had worked,she could able to look for their siblings.
As seen above ,working is not only economical effect,it influences all parts of the life.

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