Charlie was a gag rabble in the boot camp, but he performed a meritorious service in France: he rushed to the front and captured 13 Germans, then approached the German line as a tree stump, and finally, with the help of a French girl, captured the German emperor and his crown prince. The invincible Charlie was welcomed by people when he returned to his hometown of New York. When Charlie was surrounded by glory and excited, everything suddenly disappeared-it turned out to be just a dream. The Chronicles of the Army wantonly ridiculed the pattern and conception of the war, and was later regarded by the film critics as the outpost of the Great dictator 12 years later. This film was filmed at a time when the first World War was raging. Chaplin, who hated the war, timely made this film with dreams as the narrative subject, no matter from the starting point of creation or from the framework of the content. it is a bold innovation-- satirizing the German generals and the German royal family through the strange experience of small potatoes in the allies. Although objectively speaking, the comedy tension of this film is not as leisurely as Chaplin's other civilian comedies, which makes the audience feel sleepy, the joke design still keeps Chaplin's habit.
7.3
