The first silent film I watched in my life, I was shocked! Horrified! It's really cool to watch at 2x speed. When I watch movies, I always use the year to compare the social state of China at that time, because my western history is too bad. The metropolis built by the big capitalists is prosperous, and behind the prosperity is a group of workers who are like robots operating real machines. They live in the underground city, dark, and work ten hours a day, repeating the same actions. This is reminiscent of our current society in China. China is known as the "world's factory", and "made in China" is everywhere. In the 1950s, the western world transferred manufacturing to the third world for the purpose of obtaining cheap labor and resources. It is good to develop cutting-edge technology. China is indeed a good place to develop manufacturing. Our country is also full of factories, creating a large number of employment opportunities. However, as in the film, workers live like machines every day without their own thoughts. Can not relax for a moment, but still receive a meager salary. Gradually, the widening gap between the rich and the poor in society, coupled with the environmental pollution problems brought about by factories, makes human beings have to make further adjustments to the industrial structure. In the film, the workers are easily tempted by the machine Maria to destroy the machine, fight against the capitalists, then wake up because of the foreman's reminder, and finally reconcile with the capitalists easily. It is easy to be influenced by the thoughts of others and manipulated by others. I don't read much either, so I couldn't write a commentary about religion and German history in this film, but it made me want to know.
I actually don't like the ending. I don't know their religion, but when I think of them shaking hands and having to go back to the dungeon to repeat the mechanical work and live a dark life, I feel a little uncomfortable, but , What else could the workers at that time do except accept it? To survive after all. Haven't the capitalists been earning the hard-earned money of the proletariat? This may be the inevitable trend of historical development. I don't know how it will develop in the future.
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