Truly hilarious, Truly Depressing

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2012)

The Great Dictator is far from what I thought it would be, I thought it would be stupid people falling over on things and calling it humor. But it's certainly not such things. The Great Dictator has layers, the first layer is the layer of slapstick humor, under there's the layer of humor parodying the Holocaust, then there's no humor. Only sadness and despair, which makes it hard to believe you're watching a Chaplin films. In this excellent film, Charlie Chaplin stares as a Jewish barber who wakes up and little does he know, there's the seconds world war going on around him. Meanwhile The Great Dictator of Tomania Hynkel (who resembles Adolf Hitler a little... hmmm...) searches for his way to conquer the world by starting of with ridding it of it's Jews. Hynkel has also has a strange resemblance to the Jewish barber... very strange... The Great Dictator is hilarious and truly moving. I give it a well deserved 10/10 and a place somewhere in my top 100 movies.