 At a bright dawn, they walk down the road towards an uncertain but hopeful future.During a European tour promoting "City Lights", Chaplin got the inspiration for "Modern Times" from both the lamentable conditions of the continent through the Great Depression, along with a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi in which they discussed modern technology.Chaplin did not understand why Gandhi generally opposed it, though he granted that "machinery with only consideration of profit" had put people out of work and ruined lives.