A Movie that was made over 70 years ago

[Shu]

A movie made over 70 years ago can stop a man directly in his tracks. It makes you think ..

 

[seddy-0]

if only world leaders really thought this way.. its a shame that the world is run by greed and oppression. that speech needs to played for the world to hear today.. some one over 70 years ago must have seen the future we live in now and voiced an opinion. clearly that movie and speech was far ahead of its time.

 

[PhoenyxAngel]

Somewhat off topic to what you're getting at, but on topic about the actor: Charlie Chaplin was the freaking man. I love all the movies I've seen him in, and that includes the Dictator.

This was a great moment in movie history, in my opinion. It's message will be relatable for decades to come....so it's truly one of those messages that resonates with people of various generations. I wish more people from our time today can sit down and watch this movie.

Thanks for sharing the speech.

 

[Shu]

Just hope someone can take something from it.. before its a bit late.

 

[Richard B Riddick]

I like that quotation.

Here's another one...

The United States has become a country spoiled by unmerited privilege and its own profound sense of superiority. Most of the "brightest and the best" have chosen to pursue their own personal wealth and power rather than engaging in true service to the community or to the country at large. As a people, we no longer live up to our former billing. In fact, the entire concept of "a people" has been lost, along with the ideology that supports it. All that remains is the shred of this improbable idea that we all, somehow, can be rich and beautiful. The degree to which we participate in that dream is the degree of our culpability. It determines the character of the American people, it determines our domestic inequities and it determines our foreign policy.

On both sides of the political fence, the participants are convinced that
they are right and the other side is wrong. Even my liberal friends make no
effort to question how they may have contributed to this disaster, how their
own intellectual smugness may have alienated those less able to understand
the implications of the current political direction. We question the moral
majority, but we do not question our own cloistered vantage point. In my
opinion, the dream is what divides us, because it is the dream that draws
the dividing line between the bad and the beautiful, the rich and the poor.'

-- Michael St. John Smith