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Lesson 2: The Development of Cinematic Language
Madness and Taken Away
Video 2.25: Modern Times madness and taken away.
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Video 2.25, Length: 00:01:09
As Chaplin transforms a factory into his personal playground, the factory machines break down. Note that his dance includes spraying oil on the other workers. This visualizes the extent to which the men who submit to such inhuman labor become cogs in the machine that need oil, as it were.