I've heard a lot bout Modern Times, and I've watched the part of it. After viewing the whole thing, I found out why people speak so high about it. It a great representative of quick development productive system stressing citizens. The concept and its forms has been applied to different medias. So I started to think that is modernism really that good as I knew before? Does the word simply represent speed, development and elit?What new technology actually mean to our daily life?
New technologies can make things more easier. In order to produce a sophisticated product, with the aid of machine, one group focus only one little part of it, and other groups and the machine will take care of the others. Boss can control the factory without move an inch, just telling his workers what to do by using a camera and a speaker. It makes administration more convenient as well as making the factory more standar. It can increase the speed of production, saving a lot of time and labour. All these benefits shows in the profit, and the big boss and consumers gained through thess new technologies.
The main character is a typical figure of workers at that time. These new technologies have huge effect on his life. First of all, we can see that he can't stop even for one second to get rid of the fly. And he has little time to rest.As soon as he entered the men's room, his boss saw him in the camera and asked him to get back to work. Sencondly, he has such a long working time that his body can't relax even after work. He just can's help tighting screws. But physical damage was not the most terrible. All these creativeless work and long hour repressing made him crazy. He broke the rules of the factory by working arround and disturbing others, most important, he damaged the machine. So he was accused of mentally break down and was sent to the hospital. It shows the distortion and depression of machine to him.
Computers are similar to the machines in the film. We use it everyday, sometimes we stick to them all day without a break. It requires finger movements a lot, and a few of us may end up typing air. Computer is our working tool, we can use it to do our homework, write novels, read books, watch movies, and doing almost whatever you like. It can make us happy by connecting us to others, provide entertainments as well as enhance our knowledge. It harms our eyes, and prevent us from outdoors and families. It also harms muscles. But we can't leave them.
The pros and cons of new technologies has been discussed a lot. Many science fiction films talks a lot about it. And it remains to be discussed.
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