1927 Sci-Fi Dystopia
Profiteering in the Industrial Revolution The children of the rich have an opportunity to reach the bottom of the society. The workers at the bottom are the "parts" of the industrial revolution enterprises to deliver benefits to the top of the pyramid. If they are broken, they can be replaced.
Instead of being an employee and a boss, spending money to hire someone to do trivial work, the boss can free up his energy to think about more important things
Not destroying electricity, water systems, but destroying organizations and systems that exploit and exploit people
There is a camera error, capitalists will never kneel on the ground and hold their heads, they will think absolutely rationally, how to make decisions to achieve their goals, and think about how to solve problems
Kneeling and admitting one's fate is the way the poor behave
In order to make the capitalists lose, the director made such a distorted detail
The sentence at the end of the film: "The coordinator of the mind and the skillful hand is the heart" This sentence is estimated to be partly lost due to the age and damage of the film, and there is a problem with the translation.
translates to:
The way that mental workers and manual workers get along is: mental workers who are good at thinking brainwash the physical workers who are not thinking, so that the manual workers can consciously abide by the rules of the game formulated by the mental workers
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