Metropolis 1927 Classic

Zack 2022-03-21 09:01:40

After watching this film, the thing that strikes me the most is the confrontation of class division, and the loss of control (or intentional use) of technology... 1. Class: the exploitation of capitalists, the destruction of proletarians. The film emphasizes, "The brain and the hands, the coordinator is the heart." To lead people to be kind, is this really religion? Perhaps it seems to me that Emil Durkheim's social division of labor ... I am most impressed by the blindness, as Hesse wrote: "The majority replaces power, the law replaces violence, and the vote replaces responsibility." The crowded heads and the unpredictable group anger left me feeling the collective numbness that no one thought about... 2. Technology. In 1927, he began to reflect on the influence of robots on people who do not have the ability to identify, just like people in modern society who are led by the nose of public opinion on mobile phones. Living in an information cocoon room and optimizing algorithms, happily acting as a leek... When technology is deliberately used, it becomes a tool for manipulating others and satisfying people's selfish desires, it must be scary. But isn't this technology? 3. Finally, human nature: "What I'm really afraid of are those who uncritically accept and fully believe Aoki's statement, the easy-to-accept opinions who don't make or understand anything themselves, and just follow what others sound like. People who dance collectively to the drumbeat. They don't even think about - even a flash of thought - whether what they are doing is wrong or not, and they have no idea that they may harm a person needlessly and fatally, no matter what their actions may bring. They will not be held responsible for any consequences." - Haruki Murakami

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Extended Reading
  • Chad 2022-03-22 09:01:34

    The repaired full version I saw, split the scene, the middle, and the last three paragraphs, 146min belongs to the longer silent film, the epic film format, the sci-fi scene is at least 30 years ahead, and the idea is at least 100 years ahead. Although the abridged pieces added after the restoration have black and white lines, they do not detract from the infinite brilliance of the work. It can be called a classic among classics. If I can give ten stars, I will definitely give twelve stars, "expressionism", "futurism" , "Doctrinalism", "Mysticism", "Seven Deadly Sins", "Dystopia", "Anti-Industrialization", Apocalypse. . . A masterpiece that combines various elements without feeling awkward at all. It has an inestimable influence on later art, especially science fiction works. Fritz Lang's pinnacle work, the image of a female robot inspired "2001 A Space Odyssey" and "The Matrix" and other works, and some of the last paragraphs have the meaning of paying tribute to "Notre Dame de Paris" and "Joan of Arc". In short, after reading it, it is too shocking, comparable to reading a book of "Das Kapital" or Orwell's Complete Works, an unforgettable one. Movie viewing experience. #archive photo#

  • Aurelia 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    The sci-fi world smells of dystopia, and tearing down the machine is not liberating yourself. Brigitte Helm has played the role of one true and one evil to the fullest. Imagination, lens language, political and religious metaphors are all near perfect.

Metropolis quotes

  • Freder: What if one day those in the depths rise up against you?

  • 11811 - Georgy: - the machine!... Someone has to stay at the machine!