Hey you! Get back to work!Director: Charles Chaplin
The tramp fights the gears and switches, assembly lines and general mechanization of the modern world. Rich with the expected Chaplin humor, this powerful social and political commentary was one of the films that convinced HUAC of Chaplin's supposed "communist" involvement, leading Chaplin to move to Switzerland, vowing to never again return to America.
General Themes: Streamlining of society to the point where life is stripped of quality and value, the terrible rise of machinery over man, labor undercurrents in America, the mechanization of man, dehumanization in general
My favorite scene-- Chaplin has landed a job singing at a restaurant but oh: he has forgotten the words. This scene is actually the first ever in which the tramp speaks, and Chaplin wanted him to say something "universal" so the song he actually sings is a giberish mix-up of Italian and French, understandable only in the silly-slightest because of Chaplin's motions:
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