The Artist who resisted change

Movies touch you in strange, inexplicable ways. But perhaps when they illustrate the existing human condition in some engaging and artistic way they touch us the most. It is possible there is a link between the fate of George Valentin, the silent film star whose fortune's collapse with the arrival of talkies, and the current mood of economic gloom and social despair in the USA and Europe.
Valentin, performed in an Oscar-winning turn by Jean Dujardin, resists change and is almost thrown into the dustbin of history. Could it be possible that his character has found a sympathetic echo among those who lost their jobs and felt outdated and irrelevant?