the new city strangers were suddenly thrust together. The most extreme example of this being the new technologies of transportation. On buses and trains people were forced to look at these threatening strangers "for long minutes or even hours". It was comforting to be able to view these people as "harmless oddballs". Its only fitting then that Chaplins 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 pleasure
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