in reaction to the dullness of the film of actual combat in that time and the wartime public increasingly turn to humor a escape from monotony and anxiety charlie chaplin fear that his great shoulder arm would offend people and but it become his great hit in it and charlie and by luck and courage and and devilish ingenuity win the war singlehanded and bring a captive kaiser in triumph to london the chief difference between this hilarious burlesque and some of the serious war drama be that in charlie case it all turn out to be a dream .