Chaplin's genius

Rating: 8/10 (21 March 2012)

Charlie Chaplin made the great dictator in 1940. In it he plays a megalomaniac intent on taking over the world; wonder who that might be? The little tramp wears a very familiar mustache, making him look like Adolf Hitler.
Chaplin plays both a Jewish barber at the beginning and then a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel later on. The leader gives a rallying speech in pure gibberish, Chaplin studied Hitler's voice for real and does a vicious impression, gesticulating like the lunatic Nazi and portraying him for the fool that he was.
Only could a genius take such a tragic and harrowing story and make a searing and funny satire. Chaplin has done it with style and grace.