Chaplin's first talkie

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2001)

Charles Chaplin plays Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania.He also plays a Jewish barber.Resemblance between these two is coincidental.The Jewish barber fights in the first world war and he loses his memory.He comes back to the ghetto and realizes that Hynkel has started the persecution of Jews.And why?Because he thinks that the Aryans are the best race and the others must be destroyed
The Great Dictator from 1940 is Charles Chaplin's first talkie.It is a movie that shows how horrible the Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler were.He started making the movie in 1936 when practically nobody knew what kind of power Hitler had in his hands.They didn't know how he was going to send the Jews to concentration camp and brutally get them killed there.Now it's obvious that the man was insane.How could anybody think he was a great man and there was some sense in his speeches.Hitler was an idiot.It's nice that somebody could make a movie which laughs right at Hitler's face.Chaplin has told later that he wouldn't have made this comedy if he had known how much the Jewish people actually had to suffer.Also an other fascist leader gets laughed at; Benito Mussolini.In the movie he is Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria and he is played by Jack Oakie.The acting work in this movie is superb.Chaplin is amazing in the double role.Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's wife at that time, is Hannah in the movie and she is doing terrific role work.Everything works perfectly in this great comedy which showed that Chaplin did very well in a talkie.He only made five talkies.The first one is the best alongside Limelight.There are some excellent scenes in this satire.In one scene you can see Hynkel playing with the globe and the scene after that shows the Jewish barber doing his work while Brahms symphony is playing on the radio.It is one of my favorite scenes and the funniest in the movie.Of course there are some serious scenes in the movie.You can't make this kind of movie all funny.The ending isn't funny at all and it's better that way.There the barber makes a speech for humanity and tolerance.It is a very touching scene and made my eyes a little wet.He tells us to love one and other and he gives hope to us all.In today's world I can't see too much hope for the mankind.Many people don't even want to become tolerant.Those people judge other people because of the color of their skin or their religion.I tell you to stop being intolerant and unite!Tolerance is the key to the better world.