filmic "physiologies" of the big city be carried out in silence. Despite his poor beginnings Charlie Chaplin the filmmaker, was in a sense, a flaneur himself. A wealthy romantic whose films are exercises in simple pleasures and the botanizing of various "city types" into two-dimensional caricatures that are comforting in their simplicity. Chaplin's character in "Modern Times", however, is not just a flaneur but rather how the flaneur would like to view himself. He is one
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