‘a story of industry, of individual enterprise, humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness’

The “Modern times’, one of the most outstanding masterpieces by Chaplin, was a lot more than just shameless, slapstick silent comedy. It reflected one of the most crucial times of world economy:

When Chaplin was creating Modern times the United States was in the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. In October 1929, the market lost $30 billion in value causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, nearly half of the country’s banks had failed; some $74,000,000,000, or five-sixths of the value of the stock market of September 1929 had disappeared.

before Chaplin began filming Modern times, he traveled around the world and talked with some of the most influential figures of world and that played a very…