Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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This is a beautiful film. Charlie Chaplin lived in arguably the darkest period in human history. Some historians consider 1914-1945 like a second 30 years war. For over thirty years, there was no peace in Europe. People were told to hate and kill one another. Garbage like Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini terrorised the world. Spain suffered a horrific civil war. Millions were impoverished during the great depression. Crippled men sulked in every corner, their spirits broken the gas attacks and shellfire in their dreams that kept them from sleep every night. It was during this time that Chaplin wrote most of his films. He wanted to make people happy, to show that hatred was invented to make people serve an agenda, to make them realise that the pain they felt was simply the passing of greed, of the bitterness of men. Dictators did die, and the power they took from the people, is returning to the people. Chaplin gave us a message: We, the people have the power. The power to create machines, the power to create happiness. We can make this life a wonderful adventure. So, in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us all unite.
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