The Great Dictator
This movie is absolutely wonderful and brilliantly funny, if only this strange feeling would not be there. For some inexplicable reason, I feel very disturbed when I see this image of people looking up and talking about a better world in which “nobody hates us”. (This gesture is just so Russian propaganda somehow?) Chaplin’s speech at the end was just too much. Maybe it’s the German synchronization, the tone just gives me weird associations.
Apart from that though, this film is a wonderful depiction of humans, society and all that. Typically Chaplin-esque romantic, sure, but the comedic elements make you laugh because they just nail those characters (Hitler! Stalin! Wahaha).
Is this Joseph Tura? Oh my… he actually is NOT! But their faces are so similar…a little bit like John Cleese, just seeing this face makes me want to laugh. Thus Schultz is my favorite character, but then again, I must say that I also liked Goebbels Gorbitsch very much, ahahaha.
With this film, xx get s a whole new meaning. XD I can’t believe I watched such a funny classic this late (before, I have only seen parts of it but never got the whole story). I am still primarily a Keaton fan, but this film makes the decision more difficult yet again.