First of all, I want to mention that this movie was really meaningful because trough simple sketches I could get many details from this period.
As it did not have dialogues, I needed to pay more attention than to the movies that have it. The movie did not have any colours so it immediately introduces to the viewer into an old context.
What it was shown in the movie were the laboral conditions in which workers use to work. With machines arrival to the countries, everything started to change strongly. For working, people had to apply for jobs in factories. There, they should work as fast as machines did. Workers were not able to stop working because if they did it, they could cause a disaster in the machine.
The movie showed Chaplin as a worker in one of those factories. It seemed there were not enough factories for every people because at the beginning of the movie there it was showed how people “fought” against each other to get a job. Once that Chaplin was working there, he was not able to stop working until the lunch break. On the other hand, business people were finding the way that makes people work even during lunch time.
The first machine that was brought to make workers eat during work was tested with Chaplin. It did not work at all, because after some minutes it became out of service and it started to cause more problems than solutions.
Nowadays, it is difficult to think that workers rights were so ignored. During those times, people were treated as “machines to into machines”. Bosses did not want workers have time even for having lunch. They only thing that bosses wanted was production in order to get money.
Fortunately, there are not the same working conditions today. we are still having working problems with bosses or colleagues, but at least we can have lunch in peace, supposedly.
As it did not have dialogues, I needed to pay more attention than to the movies that have it. The movie did not have any colours so it immediately introduces to the viewer into an old context.
What it was shown in the movie were the laboral conditions in which workers use to work. With machines arrival to the countries, everything started to change strongly. For working, people had to apply for jobs in factories. There, they should work as fast as machines did. Workers were not able to stop working because if they did it, they could cause a disaster in the machine.
The movie showed Chaplin as a worker in one of those factories. It seemed there were not enough factories for every people because at the beginning of the movie there it was showed how people “fought” against each other to get a job. Once that Chaplin was working there, he was not able to stop working until the lunch break. On the other hand, business people were finding the way that makes people work even during lunch time.
The first machine that was brought to make workers eat during work was tested with Chaplin. It did not work at all, because after some minutes it became out of service and it started to cause more problems than solutions.
Nowadays, it is difficult to think that workers rights were so ignored. During those times, people were treated as “machines to into machines”. Bosses did not want workers have time even for having lunch. They only thing that bosses wanted was production in order to get money.
Fortunately, there are not the same working conditions today. we are still having working problems with bosses or colleagues, but at least we can have lunch in peace, supposedly.
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