PM Review

  It’s an utter coincidence that I had watched 2023 Eisenstein’s Strike [1925] on 4rth May, just following Chaplin’s feature oeuvre. And I was immensely moved by the movie not only for its narrative style and formal structure but also mostly the themes of human dignity and labor rights and their eternal conflicts with the owners’ interests.   The following morning, I came across a post on my Facebook News Feed about the strike of Writers Guild of America held on 2 nd  May, 2023 just day after the International Labor Day. The disputes are very crucial and contemporary. One is about cutting short the residual payments for Streaming platforms, another is a more delicate one. It is about the threat of human creativity and engagement of the entertainment industry. Employing AI based technologies especially ChatGPT and automations on creative process is minimizing their rooms to work under stable conditions.   Previously I wrote a brief review on Chaplin’s Modern Times rel...