<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" >note: This article is not a film review, but a restatement of the entire film from the perspective of "social Darwin". Film critics please pay attention to the next article ~</h1>
"Modern Times" records the story of the great miracles of an era in the United States. In the face of Ford's "assembly line production method", the productivity of a car is increased by hundreds of times, and the labor intensity of workers is greatly reduced...
People enter the factory in droves and become assembly line workers.
The factory owner is the leader of the team, and as the core of the team, he bears the risk of factory bankruptcy and the power to manage the factory and operate the factory.
You must have excellent command skills in order to be a good leader. He sat in the office, a storm rolled up in his head, and he racked his brains, thinking about how to improve the production efficiency of the factory, so as to drive the whole team forward, but also so that every worker on the assembly line could be trained and grown, and not waste his life. After all, they are useless.
Worker Charlie was a skinny assembly line worker, his hands skillfully screwing the screws on the conveyor belt. However, not fast enough... It has not yet reached the goal expected by the boss.
The boss is the decision-maker of the team, although he does not participate in labor, but he is an intellectual exporter, the so-called "one person can reach a thousand troops and horses", without him, the workers will have no food to eat, so the boss's work is more challenging and more arduous.
The boss frowned, thinking about how to improve the productivity of employees. He was anxious about this for a long time, because the workers only had twenty-four hours a day, and there was not much left except sleeping and eating...
Just as he was distressed, a machine salesman sold his boss his "automatic rice feeder", a machine that could "free the mouths of workers" and allow them to continue working during mealtime.
Working while eating is a symbol of the strivers.
The salesman's introduction made the boss eager to try. At this time, the boss remembered the surveillance of Charlie lazing in the toilet, so he asked him to try.
The unknown Charlie was thrust into the machine, his eyes stunned, struggling left and right, like a guinea pig used for experiments, trembling. He wasn't relieved until the salesman reassured him.
The back of Charlie's head is locked, the machine claws in front of him, handing food to his mouth one by one regularly, and everything goes smoothly...
Unfortunately, however, the claws of the machine feeding the corn failed, the corn rotated at high speed in front of Charlie's teeth until it got out of control, and Charlie's facial features were completely out of control by the machine in front of him, as if he was going to fly out of this face... Experimental test failed.
The salesman prepares the food again and starts all over again, but fails again.
At this time, Charlie's body was already covered with soup and cream, and the boss was particularly disappointed, shook his head, and calmly said: "Not practical."
But the boss is not discouraged by this, which is also the courage that a leader should have.
Sure enough, in order to improve production efficiency and allow employees to improve the technology of screw tightening, the boss turned up the speed of the conveyor belt.
In order to be worthy of the salary given by his boss and his youth, Charlie clenched his teeth, accelerated his speed, and challenged his limits.
However, his strength can only reach this point, can not keep up with the speed of the conveyor belt, and eventually the whole person fell into the machine. Fortunately, the workers hurriedly pressed the "rewind button" of the machine to pull Charlie out.
However, at this point Charlie twisted faster and faster... In his eyes, it seemed as if there were only screws, and everything in the world seemed to be a nut waiting to be tightened. Therefore, as soon as he saw the round object, he would raise the tool in his hand and twist it.
The buttons on the woman's chest, the co-workers' noses, the screws of the fire hydrants all want to screw, he..... Crazy.
Crazy Charlie wreaks havoc in the factory. Holding the oil jug and spraying it into the face of the worker, the worker could not bear it, pulled down the control switch of the assembly line, put down the work at hand and wanted to teach Charlie a lesson.
However, in the chase, Charlie turned on the switch of the assembly line conveyor belt again, and at this time the workers who chased him reflexively returned to the workstation.
But this also shows that under the shrewd management style of the boss, the employees are very dedicated, and there are signs of becoming screw experts, at least, the enthusiasm for the work, they have.
The crazy Charlie is sent to a mental hospital, the boss is completely disappointed in him, and he also loses his job.
After being discharged from the hospital, Charlie inadvertently picked up the red flag of the workers' strike on the street, so he was imprisoned by the police as the leader of the strike.
At this time, Charlie was depraved, and he actually felt that it was better to eat and live in prison than to live outside. He was ready to spend the rest of his life in prison.
However, things are uncertain, he inadvertently saves the kidnapped policeman in prison, performs well, and is released early. Although I was reluctant to leave, I couldn't rely on it. In addition, the police issued him another letter of recommendation for work, so he left.
Charlie gets a job at a shipyard, but is fired again for a disaster. There is no way, Charlie, who has insufficient working ability, is already difficult to survive in society.
Charlie desperately wanted to return to prison, so he helped the woman who stole the bread to blame, and then went to the restaurant to prostitute herself, so he was taken to the police car.
This girl is in the lower class of society like Charlie, and her appearance makes the originally helpless Charlie feel a little warm of companionship, so he changes his mind. He began to fantasize about being able to form a family with her and own a house.
The two 'are the same fallen people at the end of the world', hugging each other for warmth, so they "escaped from prison".
Charlie's life has been pursued because of the existence of girls, so he no longer degenerates, and re-emerges as a "strivers", with the original letter of recommendation, and finds a job as a security guard. However, he eventually lost his job due to the disaster.
Luckily, they both later found a restaurant job, with Charlie serving the plates and the girls dancing.
The restaurant is small but has a variety of services, and the dining area and the dance area are combined.
The guest ordered a roast duck but waited for an hour before eating it.
While serving, other customers gather in the dining area to dance, and Charlie wanders around the crowd, delaying the delivery of the roast duck in his hand to the customer, which is not smart enough.
At this time, the guests who could not wait for the roast duck were already impatient and complained to the restaurant owner. Charlie did not pass the test of the boss, and there was no salary during the probation period and no fine, so he had to let Charlie try to sing, and if the customer was satisfied, he could be hired.
It turned out that Charlie was capable, and his singing skills and his creativity made the drummers in the audience applaud, and the boss's original solemn face showed a happy and joyful smile.
Charlie and the girl seem to be starting to "play a big role" in their careers, but the police arrest the girl for "stealing bread" earlier.
So the two began their journey into exile again...
This is an excellent historical education film, which warns people: if you want to make money from your boss, you must first think about how much value you can create for your boss;
It reveals how a good boss can improve the productivity of the factory through wisdom;
It conveyed to people "the glory of noble humanity that cannot be stolen even if you are hungry."
It shows that the United States in the thirties not only created great miracles in the economy, but also made great achievements in social security.
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