The pointer of the pre-modern city may pause for a second in a trance moment

Chase 2022-04-20 09:01:34

With the variations of the Marseillaise, the classical temperance and balance are swept away, the "mind" and "behavior" of the metropolis are twisted and mad, as if faith is the ultimate fantasy of science, without the connection of the heart, religion is evil and technology is ugly, and human existence boils down to for the function and structure of society. So do proverbs and doctrines still have primordial logic, and will revelation also become cheap depreciation in the age of mechanical reproduction? Isn't the core that makes the huge gears turn and drives the whole machine running on every original sin, and isn't the dripping beast on the bell tower of Notre Dame also a relic of a former delusion? ——The Tower of Babel, the tower that symbolizes the final disillusionment of the eternal limit of mankind, a set of oracles encoded with zero and one, an entangled history of a double helix structure, must sink and be lost in the mirror image of its hell, corrupt. Did the children who survived the flood, Maria, who was burned at the stake, really have a chance to escape the mix of steel and marble? Can you recognize the imprint of the soul on the covenant when each body is abstracted into labor on a dial, turning its face for the promised scale?

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  • Evalyn 2022-03-22 09:01:34

    Going back to 90 years ago, he burned the Mechanical Virgin Mary, who predicted that science is the last religion of mankind. 90 years later, the premonition has become a conclusion: the rabble is still lost in the process of man-making the Tower of Babel, and the metropolis is still heading for the fate of the underground ruins. In this grand ceremony that spans thousands of years, where does human beings need Satan? Human beings themselves are their own Satan.

  • Leonel 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    Too stuffy, too stuffy, it's almost all fixed shots... More importantly, I'm too disgusted with this kind of naked social system theory functional theory! Fritz Lang almost only understands Le Pen's fur, and Le Pen's academic level itself is worth considering. After watching this film, I can even glimpse a little clue that the Nazis came to power five years later. Some people even say that this is dystopia, my God, watching movies without reading books is not enough!

Metropolis quotes

  • The Machine Man: [disguised as Maria] Women and men, let no one miss today - ! Death to the machines - !

  • Moving Title Card: Deep below - the earth's surface - lay the worker's city.