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When you watch the movie Modern Times, you could see the dehumanization of people because of technology and progress. You could notice how Chaplin in an ironic way shows us how technology advances and industrialization affect what happen in the society. In other words, these aspects had a social impact in that period, in which arose the urbanization, urban proletariat and industrial bourgeoisie.

With the modernity and industrialization, we could notice that humanity has got a lot of advances in technology, communication, transport, knowledge and so forth. It could get because humanity began to think that was the centre of the world and progress and no religion and God. Humanity had the reason and the power of progress. Nevertheless, Some countries and governments forgot that people were not machines. In the movie, Chaplin shows us how in that period of time there were strikes against industries because people were exploited without rights and with inequality in salary and opportunities. I could notice how Chaplin presents with their movie the triumph of the Capitalism above the human society.

Nowadays, people have rights in work, education, health etc. but in my opinion, the dehumanization and inequality between social classes continue.