Not Laughable Comedy

Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The great dictator’ is reminds me about my country’s ongoing situations. This movie is comedy, but I couldn’t laugh with it. I have to confess that it was uncomfortable and unenjoyable throughout the movie. The fascistic government is started from Hinkel’s popularization after the defeat of the World War First. The currently elected president of South Korea had been started by condolence of her dictator parent’s death. Once the autocracy settled, it brainwashes people. The governmental authority searches and destroys non-existing enemies such as opposite party members or citizens, and the media glorifies the dictator. Nationals are going to lose their own will and being brainwashed by violence and speeches. Near end of the process, when there are no more enemies left to kill in the nation, the absolutism looking for the war for calming down discontentment of its people. War victimizes everyone. The last part of the film, the status change between the dictator and the barber shows us reality of dictatorship. It is all replaceable even though the dictator himself! It trashes the human rights and makes individuals as a part of the machine name of fascism. It takes tolls on everyone including the head quarter of it equally. Eventually, all of its citizens will become replaceable. It is the only effect of dictatorship. Charlie Chaplin shows it clearly, simply and less offensively in his film, and I think those are power of his movies.