Pre-World War II Cinema, Combination of Imaginative Art

Nyasia 2022-04-21 09:01:44

The food for the soul can't be broken... "Metropolis" was a silent film in 1927, before World War II... At that time, Hollywood was just a wasteland and German films were already highly developed. The combination of imagination and art was definitely a blockbuster at that time! The background music is performed by the "Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra". It is a real symphony orchestra playing at any time in Germany. It can be seen how powerful the national quality of the whole country is! I didn't feel tired of the movie for more than two hours. I didn't understand why it was related to the original sin before... I don't think it has much to do with it, but the most classic line in it is "The coordinator of the hand and the brain must be the heart", So before I thought why there is no "blindness and ignorance" in the Seven Sins... Maybe I understand!

At that time, because of the circle of friends, I cut a few classics:

The expressions of these people are simply gone?

This picture is also quite profound, have you found a little bit of yourself on the way...

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  • Maria: HEAD and HANDS need a mediator. THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!

    Worker #1: But where is our mediator, Maria - ?

    Maria: Wait for him! He will surely come!

    Worker #2: We will wait, Maria...! But not much longer - - !

  • Maria: Today I will tell you the legend of THE TOWER OF BABEL... "Come, let us build us a tower whose top may reach unto the stars! And the top of the tower we will write the words: Great is the world and its Creator! And great is Man!" But the minds that had conceived the Tower of Babel could not build it. The task was too great. So they hired hands for wages. But the hands that built the Tower of Babel knew nothing of the dream of the brain that had conceived it. BABEL. BABEL. BABEL. BABEL. One man's hymns of praise became other men's curses. People spoke the same language, but could not understand each other...