An individual who has been involved in group action for a long time enters a special state similar to being hypnotized, and he is no longer able to be conscious of his actions. - "The Crowd" Le Pen
Today, I watched "Metropolis" 93 years ago. The amount of information is very large, but the director Fritz Lang, who has been engaged in the editing of the film's rhythm, is able to control it with ease, and the dramatic performance of the actors is well brought into the picture. Come to the video. The films of the 1930s were still in the silent film era. The Federal Republic of Germany under the Industrial Revolution was still under the control of the United States and other forces after the defeat of the war. The contradiction between man and machine, the contradiction between capitalists and workers, and finally the contradiction between hands and brains, There are many "coordinators" in the film - the coordinator who incarnates the Virgin Mary; the scientist who overthrew the movement to destroy the city; the cloned Maria created by the scientist; the capitalist commander of the city, Lao Fu; the working class movement launched Man Xiaofu; the foreman who controls the core unit. These seven coordinators are just fulfilling the identities of different promoters in their respective positions. The class is frozen like a still-frame city of cyberpunk style that is constantly emerging. At the end of the film, the working class and the capitalist class "shake hands and make peace" still Slightly pale. The coordinator of the hand and the brain that is repeated in the film must be the heart, and the intention is to hope that everyone can get rid of the identity of the tool person, and can lead the hand and the brain from the heart, rather than the real and erratic "coordinator".
The most admirable thing is the director's brain hole. Thirty years after the film was shot, the world's first industrial robot was manufactured by Mr. Engelberg, the "father of robots" in 1958. A cloned sheep "Dolly" was invented, and then human beings realized the catastrophic impact of cloning on human beings, and the director was able to have such an avant-garde in 1927. The in-depth thinking about the rise of robots to clones really makes me worship. .
In today's society, people's identity as "tool people" in society is becoming more and more obvious, just like Xiao Ke in "Childhoods" directed by Yang Dechang said: "Look at these houses, I can't tell them apart anymore, it's me. It is designed, not designed by me, it all looks the same. With me, without me, it seems to be less and less important.” Starting from Marx’s theory of alienation, under the capitalist system, labor has become alienated, and the labor of laborers It is only a means of earning a living, and labor is exchanged for the reward of maintaining survival, which is divorced from the essence of human beings. The laborers lose self-affirmation and self-realization in labor, which directly leads to the assembly line of employees, especially in the lower-level society. , When it comes to this, my heart is sad. Whether we young people who work hard in big cities, whether we have ideals and dreams or not, are really the bottom that is indisputable. The company takes the maximization of economic benefits as the only criterion, and employees hold similar Salary, renting a similar house, being cut with a similar amount of leeks... and the film is only responsible for presentation and prediction.
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