A King in New York : Charlie Chaplin
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A King in New York [1957] was the first film Chaplin made after being banned in the USA and the movie released in the UK. It is another utopian film after The Great Dictator [1940] in which he realized the Hitler’s absolutism in Europe. The tendency to absolutism is parodically exercised also in a modest way in A King in New York [1957]. With the prior one he almost predicted the possible horrendous European crisis resulting from Nazism, with the later one he actualized it’s not so easy as we think of that we could be free in democratic setup without seamless state surveillance. I was nearly as stoned as to hear when king of Estrovia, Shahdov ( Charlie Chaplin ) got a bold and firm reply from Rupert Macabee ( Michael Chaplin ) when he answered, “ Should I be a communist to read Marx.” It is a false consciousness universally believed that you are what you do. If you listen to the Bishnu Stotram or Shiv Tandov Stotram, you must be a Hindu but when you listen to Elvis Presl...