venerdì 6 marzo 2009

Modern Times



Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression era, the film's main concerns (and those of the oppressed Tramp) echo those of millions of people at the time - unemployment, poverty, and hunger. It has a number of wonderfully inventive and memorable routines and scenes that proclaim the frustrating struggle by proletarian man against the dehumanizing effects of the machine in the Industrial Age (at the time of Henry Ford's assembly line), and various social institutions.
(From the Website www.filmsite.org)

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And now?In our Times? What's happening or What could happen?
Do you think that we are going in a NEW Great Depression era?
And What can you say about your future as Workers?Have any idea?
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"No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. "

(Tyler,Fight Club,1999)

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