Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011
Modern Times (1936)
It was Chaplin's last run as the Little Tramp. One of the film's major themes, humanity against impersonal industry, is simply and jauntily conveyed here by giving Chaplin cogs for eyes. The image is also a nod to Modern Times' memorable sequence in which the Tramp is almost digested by the gears of a giant machine.