Impression about the “The Great Dictator”

Teacher Antonio Ive Marinheiro - Termomecanica

The great Dictator was the first spoken film of Charles Chaplin. This movie, of 1940, in which Chaplin was the producer, writer, director, actor, functions that he frequently exercised in his films, which shows us his genius condition in the Seventh Art.

According to Teacher Antonio Ive, the film has a strong criticism towards the totalitarian regime, which was very supported in the first half of XX century, and was especially supported by the German nazism and Italian fascism. In the film, the main leaders of totalitarianism, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, was represented in caricatured way.

In his opinion, The great Dictator features great esthetic beauty when it talks about the attacks of the totalitarism to the dignity of the human race. So, it can be said that the movie is a piece of art as far as it is a human creation that tells with a symbolic objective, beautiful and the representation of a concept In expressing in a brilliant way the Charles Chaplin's intention, The great Dictator transmits a acid critic of the reality by a good humored esthetic, intelligent and sensitive, qualifying perfectly as a great piece of art.

Teacher Ricardo de Souza Saliba - Termomecanica 

According to teacher Ricardo de Souza Saliba from Termomecanica, it is a black and white movie, because until that moment was what could be done. It has a great technical quality because Chaplin and his studio have mastered all the techniques and the most modern equipment of that time. It is a spectacular movie, its sets, costumes and plot are just amazing.

Talking about the technical part, it’s Chaplin’s first speaking movie, demonstrating the artist’s great courage to use the new technology. The most interesting is that the same technology that will, years later, lead him to death.

Another interesting thing are the cameras and frameworks . Always well positioned and directed with brilliance. Until today the movie is a reference when we talk about cinema.

Maria Eduarda
According to the student Maria Eduarda, 15, : “The film was produced, starring and directed by Chaplin, the work satirizes the figures of dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, showing all the time the negative points of Nazi-fascist regimes.

It is worth to remember that Chaplin was a communist, looking for freedom and equality for everybody.

The film is an artistic product because it aggregates culture, being perpetuated over time.

There are times when Chaplin uses actions such as playing with a ball that seams as a globe to do a charge about the totalitarian regimes’ leaders, in this part of the film we can realize that it satirizes the fact that these leaders make wars and destroy part of the world when they want to win it.

The final speech is very touching, making us think about our lives, it encourages us to spread the well during the journey and join each other, looking for internal peace that reaches naturally who is around us.”

Enzo Polido

According to Enzo Polido, student of CEFSA, the movie "The Great Dictator" is a movie interpreted and directed by Charles Chaplin, where it makes strong criticism, through satire, to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and especially to Nazism and fascism, deployed the same.

One of the film's landmarks is when Adenoid Hynkel plays with a globe, making strong criticism of Hitler itself and especially the culture of Germany at the time, that is, the Nazism and Fascism, which states that Hitler didn´t care for the world or with the humanity, as Chaplin was a great defender of human rights, and was totally against the attitude of Hitler, and also the wars caused by the same.

The film was and is a big mark in the history of cinema and art, because it marks a time that will live forever in history and especially contests all wrong ideologies and maybe even the final scene is the speech that Chaplin causing us to think in what we do and always above all, propagate the well.