Charlie Chaplin in the film "Modern Times" portrays a factory worker during the great depression working endlessly on an assembly line screwing on bolts. After a nervous breakdown, Chaplin gets arrested countless times and seemingly enjoys his visits there so much that he looks for ways to go back. Watching this film was not only entertaining but mind opening as well. The factory conditions in this film are reminiscent of the factories in China from the E-waste film we watched in class. The workers are mindlessly screwing together parts and quickly taking apart modules in order to complete their endless assignments. Since the industrial revolution work has changed much in factories in America however, terrible factory conditions still exist in other parts on the world as we saw in the film of Chinese factories.
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