#Cinema: how much has changed and how much stays the same?

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Mikedelic

a lot of people think of charlie chaplin as just some clown who made silent movies, but this is one of the great serious speeches of all time.  like most great speeches it addresses the problems of its own time while also speaking truths of times yet to come and times long past.  that is what makes things like shakespeare and the bible great works of art.  if you look at this speech, when chaplin talks about "the airplane and the radio," he's also talking about the internet.  he's talking about our lives now, too.  it's an essentially optimistic speech that does not deny the ugliness of a world plagued by war and hate.  it is one of the most beautiful things ever committed to film.  in simple black and white.  mono.  forget 3d and surround sound and all that crap.  the two plus hours of avatar dont mean one hundredth as much as this five minutes.  i just wish there was more stuff like this out there.  remember people, dont be machines.  one of the dangers of our hypertechnologized age is that the technologies that seem to so resemble the human mind will replace it.  butbut the value of true culture lies in its capacity to create the true human beauty that we call soul.  dig it.  charlie chaplin ftmfw.

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