The function of the time in “Modern Times” & “Planet Of Apes (1968)”

Time is a part a measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events and etc. but actually we can not describe time because time is a special thing that we feel when it passes. On the other hand we can obviously define time as a space age, ice age, modern times and so on.

Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern times” is a 1936 movie, he was very successful in his predictions about future. Also the concept of the time was so important. In the film people assimilate to sheep, they just do their duties what ever they receive from the boss. For a boss money is the most valuable thing in the world “time is money” so when boss wants to increase the amount he commands to human and so machine. After all human is not like robots so time never let them to pass as it lets for the machines.

In the “Modern Times” the story was in 30s and the theme is economical panic, unemployment with the discovery of machine. For the increase rate of production needs less breaks more working time, with machines; boss can easily reduce break times to zero and provide to increase in production unfortunetly this brings unemployment because of the machine, boss never wants human workers for earning more money.

Planet of the Apes is a scien fiction movie from 1968. In the movie, concept of the time is hard to understand. There is a crew of a spaceship, they try to discover a new planet, they travel around 2000 years with a speed of light in the space. After a while they crash into earth where they think it’s another planet. They find themselves in 40.century. Environment, people, nature completely changed and another race rules the world.

In the new world only apes can survive, talk and live like a man. Human race lost their abilities. They can hardly survive in this new world. Apes think man are like animals. It’s almost the opposite side of now. So our main character tries to save the world and tries to prove that thousands years ago there was a human race in the world.

In my opinion; this fiction is so extreme but screenplay can be true. With the discovery of internet and computer science, people benefit this for themselves but also they started to do everything online from their houses, only chatting and texting each other. (There is evolution theory which is if you use some part of your body it can develope or else the organ which is not used is vanish.) After a while human can stop interracting and can lose their abilities. Then 2000 years later new races adopted to life, learn to speak, write, civilize etc. and human race lost their kingdom so they became pets.

To sum up, time has different functions dependent to centuries and reality. Sometimes it means money sometimes it means regency.