Modern Times (w/ Pedro Ángel Rivera Muñoz)
Movies vs. Capitalism
Working Conditions - It Could Die on the Spot
In the 30s, one of the achievements of the working class movement at that point was to get better working conditions. You see that Cha Pianci's play in the film, he dances and all that, he's really, he's spoken fun at that stuff and making it ironic. The fact that he's been grinded in that car is both a metaphor of that alienation, but it's also a description of the working condition,.
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