As a sci-fi masterpiece, this metropolis will have a profound impact on future sci-fi films. The climax of the film is the onset of the flood. Groups of workers who lost their minds to the blistering music were destroying equipment. Workers who have been oppressed for a long time, under the burden of constant physical labor, do not have the time and energy to think for themselves, which makes them numb. Under the influence of malicious incitement and collective herd mentality, such a group of workers, who were originally rebellious, began to lose their minds to destroy the underground factory, causing huge disasters, but soon after the event attributed the fault to the robot Maria And happily forget it afterwards. This also shows a bad psychological state of people. The foreman was a key figure in this riot. As a whistleblower in the early stage, he used the image of a wise man and leader in the later stage to guide the incited workers to wake up, and finally shook hands with the capital class on behalf of the working class. This is an overly idealized ending. There is a story about Noah's Ark in this chapter of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible. God decided to wash the world with a flood because of the serious sins of the world. And the flood here has the same effect, Mary, who is named after the Virgin Mary, played the same role as Noah in this flood. They kept the most hopeful seeds. Does Fredson, who indirectly caused the flood, represent God? In the early part of the film, there are a lot of shots of him looking down from the top of the building, which represents his aloofness. As the creator of the city, he holds a very high status. But he was markedly different from God. In the Old Testament of the Bible, God created all things in control of life and death, but he only took action when the world was full of sin, and Fredson acted entirely out of the anger of the workers who were not under his control. He has similar rights but no similar xinxing. Man can never be God. Just like the Tower of Babel mentioned before in the film, the Tower of Babel is the tower of Babel built in Babylon. The tower of Babel was built due to the king's selfish desire to reach heaven as high as the sky, and in the film it became the tower of Babel. Praise for those in power, but right or wrong will become a curse after causing tens of thousands of suffering. This film expresses social problems with science fiction and religion, and expresses the opposition between the working class and the bourgeoisie clearly and deeply, but will there be a happy ending like the film in reality?
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