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克莱尔移民好莱坞之前的社会讽刺剧，揭露资产阶级社会对工人机械式的控制和盘剥，带有轻喜剧风格，是一部早期经典。影片讲两个流浪汉在工业化和自动化浪潮中的不同遭遇，一个成了富翁，另一个只迷恋大自然。主角从监狱逃跑后，建了一座唱片厂（对百代公司的影射），流水线生产使得整个气氛跟监狱相差无几。 　　本片是卓别林《摩登时代》的灵感源泉，其犀利的思想性不亚于卓别林的那部。（本片的电影公司曾状告卓别林侵权，后来克莱尔放弃了诉讼，并表示“如果我能启发卓别林的灵感，那是我的荣幸”，而且承认自己作品中的流浪汉源自卓别林。）影片在没有剧本的情况下拍摄，由演员现场发挥。片中音乐的使用具有突破性，被誉为影史上最佳电影配乐之一。A famous left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom escaped jail and then worked his way up from salesman to factory owner, where he oversees a highly mechanized operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Fearful of being exposed over his past, at first by his friend and later by another gangster, the owner chooses to give his factory to the workers, then escapes with his friend to the freedom of the open road. The production company for "A Nous la Liberte" was for more than a decade embroiled in a lawsuit claiming that Charles Chaplin had seen their film and plagiarized many ideas from it as he developed "Modern Times."