ABSTRACT
The focus throughout is given to Heidegger’s ambiguous suggestion that within the “danger” of our enframing coexists the “saving power,” that is, the realm of art. Benjamin asserts that freedom can only come from an ethico-political “tendency” and practice, on the part of authors and artists alike. The correct tendency balances skill with its revolutionary impulse in a quest to overturn enframing forces. While created by means of advanced technological systems of information gathering and surveillance, The Unreliable Narrator undermines enframing and highlights the necessity of thinking and an openness to an aletheiac unconcealment of truth. Chaplin illustrates the dangers of automation: dehumanizing assembly lines, physical twitches, overbearing surveillance systems, and the driving forces of progress and greed. The assembly-line machines are driven at the whim of the factory owner who disregards the safety and the well-being of his workers.
