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Carnival Narrative Theory in Chaplin's Modern Times
Russian literary critic Bakhtin's "carnival" poetics theory opens up a research perspective for the relationship between carnival ceremony and the formation and development of literary and artistic genres. The carnival ceremony itself has a great influence on people, and the change in the way of thinking about the world caused by this ceremony is of great enlightening value to the study of film narrative development. The film has the characteristics of carnival variation since its birth, and the unity of "Zhuanghe" is a basic feature of its development so far.

For example, in Chaplin's Modern Times, the story begins with depression and ends with getting rid of it. Behind the funny action, the hateful face of capitalist businessmen is exposed, and behind the laughter, it makes people think deeply.

At the beginning of the film, a whistle spewed black smoke. The camera takes a panoramic view of the workers entering the factory gate from a height, and then when they enter the workshop, the camera still takes a downward angle. In the picture, workers under giant machines walk like ants, and the oppression of workers by capitalist big industries is extremely vivid. Next, the assembly line, giant screen monitoring TV and catering machine appeared in the "conventional world" of workers one after another, which became the direct cause of Charlot's madness. As a result, Charlot's series of crazy behaviors naturally led to.

Because his task is to tighten the hexagon nut, all he can see in the end is the fleeting hexagon nut. As a result, all the hexagonal things in Charlie's life suffered, because every time he saw hexagonal things, Charlie couldn't help twisting them. A woman with hexagonal buttons on her skirt in the street was killed by Charlie. But the factory owner will not stop. He even thinks that workers eat too long, so he euphemistically calls it a brand-new eating machine to improve workers' work efficiency. This kind of eating machine can "feed" the finished person to eat in the shortest time, which naturally saves a lot of time for work. Unfortunately, Charlie became a "trial product", but there was something wrong with the machine during the trial. Not only could he not stop, but he began to go crazy, and as a result, Charlie was going crazy. A wonderful scene of breaking the normal order of the factory was staged.

Even the audience who have no factory experience can see the causal connection of this carnival narrative, and can feel the heavy depression from the repressed lens images, so when Charlot frantically destroys this "conventional world", he can finally give a knowing laugh. The secret of Chaplin's comedy is that he can combine his comedy talent with carnival narration, so that his comedy can obtain the effect of double power.