Pay Day (1922)

Title: Pay Day (1922)
Creator: Charles Chaplin
Date: 1922
Description: Pay Day (1922) is a short silent film by Chaplin from 1922, running just over 20 minutes. The story is about a worker on a construction site who goes to his boss to argue about a deduction in wages, but is slapped by him, and ends up hiding his wages from his wife in order to save some personal money, only to have her kick him out of the house for being drunk.; Pay Day
Scholarly Significance: Pay Day (1922) is light-hearted and enjoyable throughout, and the audience will laugh out loud as they watch it. The pacing of the film is just right, especially as many of the details are highly suggestive and do a good job of conveying the side effects of the oppression and exploitation of the workers by the capitalist class at that time.
Cataloguer: Yuan Yuan

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