Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux

The final section of Chaplin's oddest film: a comedy about a wife murderer. The dark tone of this comedy seems almost quaint now; at the time, it inflamed Chaplin's right-wing enemies, particularly as its message appeared to dismiss the moral failings of private life in comparison with the enormities committed by states and corporations. Chaplin unquestionably suggests that banks and businesses are responsible for every crime committed by the people they impoverish.