Should you watch Modern Times?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Modern Times
Film · 1936
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
The sides of Modern Times
- The Tramp swallowed by a factory machine
- An orphan girl on the run
- A nonsense song in a café
Modern Times is good for you if…
- you like slapstick on an assembly line, a wrench in each hand.
- you enjoy a 1936 film that is almost silent and in black and white.
- you like the Tramp and the girl dreaming of a little house together.
Modern Times is bad for you if…
- you need comedy that stays realistic. Here a feeding machine runs wild and the Tramp rides through giant gears.
- you roll your eyes at a hopeful, sentimental ending.
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