The great comedian Charles Chaplin’s first fully sound film actually turned out to be his best film in terms of acting, directing and scripting.
The film unfolds two storylines: one about the hysterical dictator Adenoid Hinkel (who looks like Hitler like two drops of water) and the story of a poor Jewish barber (who looks like Adenoid Hinkel like two drops of water, who, in turn, looks like Hitler like two drops of water). Both storylines tell about the special place of man in society at that time, not yet started the Second World War. Here is the ghetto and the attitude of the soldiers to the Jews in it and the dictator to these Jews. Anyway, the script is great. The main characters in both storylines are played by the same person (Charles Chaplin). This gives a clear contrast between the "tops" and the "bottoms" of German society at the time. The difference is obvious. But no one would be able to show this difference so clearly as a great one.
Charles Chaplin. I've already mentioned him a little. In general, for me, he is one of the most respected people in the history of world cinema. Well, here's where you can find people right now who are directors, producers, composers, actors, and also play two roles in the film, and that's all about him. And that's what movie you don't look at, whether it's "The Great Dictator" or "City Lights" or "New Times," and absolutely any of his films, everywhere you can see the same picture. If you don't want to, you'll have respect. He’s also a great actor and a great comedian. He showed the last days before the war (though he did not yet know that the war would begin) in a different way, not in full seriousness, but as if with irony. The whole film is a big parody of the German army. Here is a characterless, even unbalanced dictator. You can clearly see it towards the end of the film. And the whole German army. At the very beginning of the film, Chaplin, by his very presence, completely ridiculed the army of those times. This film clearly shows that Chaplin is a diverse actor who manages to play different personalities. And all these constant curvatures, if in the movie "City Lights" they looked, well, let's say, not appropriate, then on the contrary, everything is in the subject and in the case. In general, the cast tried above all praise.
A masterpiece by Charles Chaplin. To anyone who can see the war with irony.
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