Having seen the marvelous film "Modern Times" I would like to write about the influences that this period had in people’s everyday life. Those were difficult times. People had to work a lot to suvive. They were actually machines, controlled by their bosses at work. Men were seen as animals that had to work during the whole day. It was kind of a joke, but even in jails people spent a better life.
Industrialization and modernization had a huge influence on people’s lives. These 2 historical and phylosofical events brought abject poverty. People worked a lot but they did not earn a decent salary. The big fatories were the only ones which became rich while citizens became each day poorer.
Industrialization, as the film showed it, changed completely the way people started seeing the world around them. They became human machines, times were something that started having too much importance in their lives. Unemployment had high rates. People did not have work. They did not even have anything to eat, for that reason, and as the film showed it, people had to steal to survive those deplorable life’s conditions.
Nevertheless, something that really caught my attention about the movie was when, at the end of the story, Chaplin, despite of everything he had to face, asked his girlfriend for smiling. That really was a pretty useful learning for me because I could realize how worthy of admiration “those” people were. They smiled and were grateful with live dispite of everything bad things. I really would like to be like those human beings. Fortunately, even in our times we can find still people as great as “modern” people.
