Extended Reading
  • Sunny 2022-03-17 09:01:04

    Artwork from a century ago

    When I was curious about what kind of sci-fi film could be made in 1927, I clicked on this film, after all, my grandfather was only 1 year old in that year;

    The scene where the workers change shifts at the beginning is quite amazing, and then one after another amazing pictures hit: about the...

  • Virgil 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    metropolis

    bizarre metropolis

    Adonis's Nude Garden

  • Jeanne 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    It is unimaginable that such a grand film could be made in 1927. One of Fritz Lang's expressionist masterpieces. Strong chiaroscuro, disturbing horror close-ups, parallel montages and other elements directly influenced later horror films and film noirs. The forward-looking idea of ​​man-machine integration has been repeatedly cited in many subsequent sci-fi movies. The architectural design in Metropolis is very postmodern and surreal.

  • Bertha 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    MOMA Rooftop, restored version, live soundtrack by Shanshui Records. Electronic music brings a sense of the future of the moment, a strange and unusual form that associates the highly developed, abstract industrial-class society with the electronic age. Electronic music is depersonalized, but integrated. It amplifies the effect in emotional scenes and becomes unstable in dialogue. Needless to say, the greatness of the film itself, the people will always be blind and hot.

Metropolis quotes

  • Freder: To the new Tower of Babel - to my father - !

  • Joh Frederson: What were you doing in the machine halls, Freder?

    Freder: I wanted to look into the faces of the people whose little children are my brothers, my sisters...