Modern Times: Food for the Machine

Chaplin’s riotous Modern Times has several incredible sight gags, including two scenes of characters traversing the “guts” of machines. Of course, Modern Times is also a film about how industrialization and alienation of labor make us disposable cogs for a larger, more nebulous machine. Tim tracks more (mostly) metaphorical visions of individuals being disposable objects and Food for Machines in David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Jordan Peele’s Get Out.