Modern Times is a silent comedy film produced, directed and written by Charlie Chaplain in 1936. It based during the time of the industrial revolution.
It is a film surrounding the life of a man, Charlie Chaplain, who started as a worker in a steel factory. Charlie is chosen by his boss to test the efficiency of the feeding machine that was brought to him to buy. In the course of testing the machine, it begins to malfunction and this affects the sanity of the steel worker. He had a nervous breakdown and is taken to the hospital where he is treated. He is later discharged after a week and has to begin again because he lost his job in the factory.
While wandering on the streets, a flag falls from a moving lorry. Charlie tries to give back the flag to the driver of the lorry all to no avail because the lorry is moving too fast for him to catch up. Still with the flag, he continues his journey when suddenly he saw a group of people protesting. The police comes to restore peace. Seeing him with the flag, he is thought to be the leader of the communist protest and gets arrested.
One day after lunch he is …show more content…
Since he wants to go back to prison, he sees this as an opportunity to do so. He decides to take the place of the girl by lying that he was the one who stole the bread. So he is arrested by the police. On their way to the police station, the police finds out that he lied and so he is set free and they go back in search of the girl. Notwithstanding, he goes on to commit crimes like stealing so that he could be arrested. He was eventually arrested and put in the patrol vehicle of the police where he meets the girl who stole the loaf of bread. They become friends on the vehicle and they try to escape. They wander together searching for jobs to survive. He is chased from one job to another and goes to prison a