Modern Times (w/ Pedro Ángel Rivera Muñoz)
Movies vs. Capitalism
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Chaplin's Anti Capitalism
In Chaplin anti capitalism is not only a critique of economic exploitation or alienation, you know, where you're really completely detached from the product. He gets sucked into the machine at one point. And so he's saying there you don't need words to connect Words are choking him that was a joke and he can hardly speak because of words. So it's like when he loses them, that's when he really expressed himself with sound, but you know, so he, he overcomes that.
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