The father-son relationship is an eternal topic.
From Oedipus' "kill the father and marry the mother", the relationship between father and son and woman has always been known for its complexity and subtlety.
The 1927 "Metropolis" shows the love and hatred of a father and son with a bizarre story.
1. The opposition between emotion and reason
My father was the owner of a large business and had the power to power the entire metropolis. The building where he works reaches into the sky, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city.
In this city with a sense of technology, the viaduct has nine bends and eighteen bends, almost reaching the horizon. Private jets are as common as bicycles, adorning the sky like ornaments.
And all this can't satisfy his father's ambition, he is still brewing an even more amazing blueprint. It was this idea that pushed him and his son to opposites in the future.
My father is a standard business person, unsmiling, calm and cold-blooded, with almost no emotional fluctuations, and is busy with work all day.
The son is the standard rich second generation, simple-minded, rich in emotions, and his daily life is sports and flirting with beautiful women.
He didn't know at all that there were still a group of "social animals" in the world, living underground all day and facing the threat of death at any time.
2. Beauty reveals secrets
The son was playing with a group of beauties when a younger and more beautiful woman suddenly appeared.
The simple dress could not cover up the beautiful face of a woman, but the filthy children she led set off her divine brilliance.
The son looked a little confused.
But then, the beauty's words made him even more confused.
The beauty said to the children of the group of employees: "Look, this is your brother."
The son was frightened by this "testimony" and immediately asked the housekeeper for proof. The butler was in a cold sweat, but couldn't answer anything.
The son felt that something was wrong and ran directly to his father's company.
Just in time for an industrial accident, my son witnessed the deaths of young workers one by one.
This wakes the son from the paradise his father had built for him.
He realized that his father had been deceiving himself, making himself, who enjoyed this wealth, become an executioner invisibly, depriving the lives of countless people.
3. Son Changes Identity
Excited son ran to find father.
After learning the truth of the accident, the father directly fired the person in charge, causing the person to commit suicide.
The father's cold-blooded and ruthless treatment of his employees stimulated his son again.
He persuaded his father to give up this inhumane way of doing business, but was only rejected.
Words could not convince the father, the son decided to use practical actions to wake him up.
The son sneaked into the company and swapped identities with a small employee.
This means that the son has changed from a rich second generation to a "social animal" with only a job number.
4. Bad decisions
The father, who was focused on his ambitions, did not discover his son's disappearance.
He ran to find the scientist he had imprisoned.
The scientist's hair stood on end, his eyes were red, and he exuded the scent of an evil doctor.
The scientist with the same high IQ is naturally not reconciled to being controlled by others. He promised to help his father on the surface, but in fact he had hidden evil intentions.
When my father came to check the results, the scientists had not finished it.
After some intriguing negotiation, the scientists bought themselves an hour
While the father waited at the scientist's residence, the son nearly had an accident and died at the company. He suffered a severe blow physically and mentally.
Colleagues took him to an underground meeting place to refresh himself.
Scientists' robotic experiments failed due to lack of "human" injection.
Under the persecution of his father, the scientist took him to the underground meeting place.
There, the father is annoyed to find a woman indoctrinating his employees.
This woman was the beauty who appeared in front of her son with a group of children.
A woman's approach will allow employees to have their own minds, thereby influencing the management of the father.
Father was very dissatisfied with this.
What annoyed the father even more was that the son in the overalls was also attracted to this woman and flirted with her.
The father suppressed his anger and took it to heart.
He ordered scientists to use this woman to do robot experiments, solving the problems of employees and sons in one fell swoop, just "killing two birds with one stone".
Scientists predict that the father will be in a dilemma over this decision.
5. The Betrayal of a Woman
The son and the woman made an appointment to meet, but did not wait for anyone.
When he followed the call for help to find the scientist's residence, he was told that the woman was with his father.
The son immediately realized that the father might have robbed his woman.
When the son came home and saw his father and his beloved woman hugging with his own eyes, he was devastated and could not afford to be sick.
In reality, this "woman" is a robot.
At the behest of her father, she conquered the men of the entire upper class with a very seductive dance.
Those rich people killed each other for this woman.
The father thus controlled the wealth of the entire society.
6. The victory of father and son
Scientists, on the other hand, let the robot convince his father's employees to rebel, throwing the entire city into chaos.
The son who got the news wanted to stop the "woman"'s crazy actions, but watched her burn to death by the awakened employees.
When he was in despair, his son found out that it was a robot, and his true love was being chased by scientists.
The son fights with the scientist to save the woman.
The father, who suffered heavy losses, came to see the scene of the scientist and his son fighting to the death. He fell to the ground at once.
The scientist's prediction came true: In the face of ambition and family affection, the father was caught in a dilemma.
On one side is a scientist who can realize his ambition, and on the other side is his biological son. The father is very entangled in his heart and does not know how to choose.
In the end, family love overcame ambition, and the son overcame the evil scientist.
The father embraces his son with open arms and accepts the woman he loves.
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