The Great Dictator - Picture 1 of 1
The Great Dictator - Picture 1 of 1
The Great Dictator (DVD, 2000, Windowboxed)
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This film entered production before WW2 began, but was not released until it was well under way. With significant fascist-sympathy in the US, and Chaplin himself being suspected as a communist sympathiser, The Great Dictator was a very courageous endeavour. Such risks in film-making - thinly veiled political statements - would be almost inconceivable today. Imagine the fallout if someone were to make an equally satirical film today which criticised the USA's foreign policy? This film is hilarious, poignant and tragic. The tragedy is that Chaplin makes a plea for the madness to end, but it is already to late - for him and for us. A must see if you have any interest whatsoever in history, film-making, politics or sattire as an art-form.
It wasn't recommendable to shoot a film about a dictatorship without having enough informations. And less than ever a slapcomedy.
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