Everyone morning, as I exit the train at Raffles MRT Station, I think of the opening scene of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.
“Modern Times.” A story of industry, of individual enterprise - humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness.
In the final, most memorable image, they are seen optimistically walking arm in arm into the sunrise before a hilly horizon. Rather than departing alone (as in so many other, ever-optimistic walks by the Tramp in farewell scenes), he is silhouetted with his love against the background, walking down the dusty road toward the future for the last time.
from: filmsite.org.
There is hope.
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