Movies are not just awesome sci-fi scenes

Sophie 2022-04-23 07:01:40

1. In 1927, German filmmakers built such a fraudulent metropolitan scene. After 90 years, it is highly consistent and avant-garde with the current metropolis;

2. The proletariat lives in underground cities, and the rich enjoy a luxurious life on the ground. Seeing this setting, you will not be surprised by some sci-fi works and movies of later generations;

3. In the 1920s, the proletariat movement was rising all over the world, and violent movements were frequent, and the director pointed out the reasons for it;

4. In the director's vision, the class contradictions of the proletariat and capitalism can be coordinated, but they can never be integrated, so the film has the image of "coordinator";

5. The film was blocked by the German authorities as soon as it was produced. The 210-minute full version has not been restored yet, and the 10-year restored version with a quarter of the length was lost;

6. A few years after the film was released, the Nazis in Germany came to power and the whole people rioted. Thinking about it carefully, it's really ironic.

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Extended Reading
  • Elda 2022-03-23 09:01:39

    #Archive# The restoration version of the second brush is a magnificent and rich masterpiece, which is both socially critical and commercial and entertaining. After all, it is produced by the country that gave birth to "Das Kapital", and it is the cover of "The Great Movie" after all. The animal story of the ancient society, the machine alienates the mind; the saint banshee is a white and black swan, a doppelganger with two bodies on one side; the sci-fi design is advanced, and it has influenced countless generations. There are differences in the quality of the deleted frames that were recovered, and I feel that at least four cuts will seriously affect the plot: the relationship between the capitalist dad, the mad scientist and Hel; the dresser can't help but tempt to go to the nightclub (human nature); secret The detective went to the middle-class home to inquire about news to buy him (the villain and "Chang'e in the Moon" are the same person); and most importantly - was the door of the core machine opened by request/violence? The foreman is telling the truth, you fools, didn't you ruin your job by destroying the machine? The construction machinery design of this film can be contributed to #fascinating or frightening giant silent object#, the strange variation Marseillaise of the group riot is very meaningful.

  • Alia 2022-01-27 08:06:45

    The regulator of the brain and hands must be the heart. The words themselves are correct, but nesting in the context of capitalism is entirely just as a representation of capital stylization (even using the Tower of Babel fable), and finally the male protagonist acts as an intermediary to reconnect the working class and the bourgeoisie, declaring violence to the working class The impossibility of revolution, the dictatorship of a few elites was sent to the bourgeoisie, and both sides found a suitable position in it to achieve the balance between classes required by society. But behind the seemingly happy ending, lies the premise that capital has alienated people: the working class is reduced to a mob, so it resorts to religious beliefs, eager for apocalypse to bring the prophesied "regulator" and achieve liberation; the bourgeoisie Behaving fragile and sensitive, he threw himself into the mechanical myth of steel in order to grow, and at the same time used its "anti-enlightenment" to paralyze the public (and self). But from another perspective, society is waiting for a few "awakened" among the capitalists to lead the masses (where are they going?), with a hint of utopian socialism?

Metropolis quotes

  • Freder: To the new Tower of Babel - to my father - !

  • Joh Frederson: What were you doing in the machine halls, Freder?

    Freder: I wanted to look into the faces of the people whose little children are my brothers, my sisters...