9/25/2009

Parallel Sequencing of Modern Times and Metropolis


The movie Metropolis is very interesting. Its a silent film movie, and its in black and white. It is a Science Fiction film, and at that time science fiction was very new to the up and coming movie genres. The main character is Joh Frederer. He is trying to figure out the social crisis between workers and the owners in capitalism. The film stars Freder as the leader of the city, Joh as his son, who tries to mediate between the elite caste and the workers.

Then there is the movie Modern Times. Went it came to the big screen, everyone knew that it would be funny. This film is a Comedy which made everyone laugh, and laugh and well laugh. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin.

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