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When Critics Get It Spectacularly Wrong
5 October 2014
What I will write is not a review of the film but rather, my feelings about it.

I think that a critic's judgment, although in most cases accurate, is often clouded by ego and limited appreciation towards the human side of the movie and more towards the aesthetic value of it and the notions of motion picture "art" and "science". So what if it's a modern version of Driving Miss Daisy? That's not the point of the movie. When one lets go of all these distractions and the film works it's magic, the human feeling it exerts on the viewer is incredible. Also, I didn't get the nonsense about the "racial stereotypes". In their shallow selves, the critics, especially the American ones, paid too much attention to these alleged signals of race stereotypes. I, for one, didn't think once about it and I was shocked to read that the movie contained racial stereotypes (I like to read reviews after watching a movie to avoid being influenced) Furthermore the instances where the film tackles cultural differences (not the plot of the movie), albeit unfortunately, are not necessarily stereotypes but a reality for many people of different cultures and ethnicity; even in America, as much as American critics hate to admit it.

So therefore if you haven't seen this movie yet, let go and immerse yourself in a touching and very human experience and don't be prejudiced about it and you will agree that this is a case where critics get it spectacularly wrong.
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Modern Times (1936)
9/10
A great farewell to the silent era
14 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Modern Times is one of the most emotionally evoking films in the past century and certainly one of Chaplin's masterpieces up there with City Lights and The Great Dictator. In Modern Times we see Chaplin's genius at work demonstrated via the character of the Tramp. Between the humorous and controversial scenes at the Steel Factory which seem as a direct jab to progress and the enslavement of men by machines, and the heartwarming scene at the restaurant where the Tramp tries out as singing waiter, Chaplin managed to mix all these elements together and with Paulette Goddard doing a wonderfully good job in the part of the Gamin, he conjures this immortal film which still captivates audiences almost eighty years after its' release. Modern Times is surely the perfect curtain call for the silent movie era.
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