Great farce with a very human heart

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2007)

*The Great SPOILERS*
A Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) saves a fellow Tomanian soldier, Schultz, during the First World War, and loses his memory. When he comes back to his barbershop, Tomania has a new leader, who looks exactly like him, Adenoid Hynkel (Charles Chaplin), a tyrant who fuels the hate for Jews to distract people from the failing economy, but who is not very bright (as most of those around him are). Schultz, now a member of the new government, tries to help him and his community survive the attacks from the 'grey shirts', Hynkel's cronies, but things don't look good at all...
This movie is, in one word, awesome. It satirizes Hitler as plainly as one can (and also Mussolini, who shows up near the end), but manages to not overdo it and be also moving and intense. Charles Chaplin gives two great interpretations and everyone else is in part.
The ending speech, especially, is nothing short of poetry. Everybody should watch this movie, especially politicians.
The Great Dictator: 10/10.