Basically the film Modern Times deals with social and industrial issues and problems in the United Kingdom in 1936. This film describes life between unemployed and employed people. The most interesting part in this movie is that it shows audiences a written language although it is a silent movie. It normally happens to lead, join stories or to highlight something important part in the film. For instance, Charlie Chaplin goes to jail, but he gets free from jail soon. In this point, a written language happens and Chaplin says he wants to stay there more. This written language is meaningful because it shows most unemployed people have no place to live and no food to eat. So, as unemployed person, for Chaplin, jail is even better than outside. Like this, most language are written to highlight, but there is an exception.

Some parts in the film are used with a spoken language. For example, from the factory in the film, when the president orders steps for working, it is spoken. It describes power between rich and poor people and it also shows how much employees work hard. By ordering of the president, speed and steps of working among employees gets faster or slower. So, it represents power between rich and poor people and time and steps of working.

Written and spoken languages are significant in this film, but silent pantomime is also important as it describes everything, in particular social and political messages. Although actors and actresses mostly do not speak in the film, they show their feeling and social problems through their facial expression and motion. For instance, after Chaplin gets free from a hospital, he goes outside, there he meets people who have no job and who are fighting for jobs and police men come there to arrest them. There is no language at all. But, it represents how many and how people have to struggle with a society and the government for their survival.

Overall, this film is very funny, but it is a very significant movie.