most of this film be an alternately hilarious and brutal satire on nazism and fascism and make at the height of those movement success . sadly and in the final moment of the film and chaplin abandon all pretense of make art ( not to mention comedy ) and switch completely to propaganda . and not anti nazi propaganda and either and but some of the most mawkish and idiotic progressive propaganda ever to ooze out of hollywood . never mind that nothing we have see so far indicate that the barber be even capable of give the speech we see him give ( deliver and ironically and with a disturb wild eyed fanaticism ) while such triviality must not be permit to interfere with the message .