Modern Times (1936)

A comedy by Charlie Chaplin.
There's no short way to explain this. A factory worker goes crazy because of his job and is committed to an asylum. Upon release from the mental home, he is arrested over a misunderstanding involving communists and a red flag. In jail, he accidentally eats cocaine and stops a jailbreak. Released from jail, he pretends to have stolen a loaf of bread to save the vagabond girl who actually stole it. They both escape the situation free and the man performs a dine and dash to get arrested. He runs into the girl again in the paddy wagon, which crashes and they escape. The man gets a job at a department store, but is unable to defend it from burglars and is arrested. Out of jail again, the homeless girl takes him to her shack and in the morning he reads about available jobs in the newspaper. He takes a job as a mechanic's assistant and gets his boss stuck in a machine. The other workers go on strike and he is arrested again when he steps on a board that catapults a brick at a cop. Released from jail AGAIN, he finds that the girl dances at a restaurant and gets a job as a singing waiter there. The cops come to arrest the girl, but the pair get away.
I agree with the opinion expressed about modern civilization not being quite so civilized after all. Charlie Chaplin reminds me of a man who used to live across the hall from me with his overalls and mustache. For a film with a minimum of words, this does what "modern" (pun intended) movies can't. They didn't need 30 shots for for a minute long action sequence in 1936, they just used 1 good one. Sadly, the art of film has been lost in these "modern times" (pun). I'm rating this awesome.