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Matthew Burchanoski
Episode 23 Part 2: Modern Times
1 hour 15 minutes Posted Feb 16, 2021 at 8:56 pm.
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Chaplin’s riotous Modern Times has several incredible sight gags, including two scenes of characters traversing the “guts” of machines. Of course, Modern Times is also a film about how industrialization and alienation of labor make us disposable cogs for a larger, more nebulous machine. Tim tracks more (mostly) metaphorical visions of individuals being disposable objects and Food for Machines in David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Jordan Peele’s Get Out.