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Rhapsody of the Industrial Revolution
Adolf 2022-03-23 09:01:39
In this acclaimed black-and-white silent film, the 1920s film offers a startling vision of the skyscraper metropolis of the future. Movies always have the characteristics of the times. This movie, born in the budding era of European industrial revolution capital, is to illustrate the contradiction between the working class and the ruling class. This is also an insightful prediction. After that, many earth-shaking struggles and changes have taken place in the world. The fundamental reason is the conflict between the socialist concept and the capitalist concept. So watching this silent film a century later does have its reasons for being epic.
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Jeanne 2022-03-25 09:01:06
It is unimaginable that such a grand film could be made in 1927. One of Fritz Lang's expressionist masterpieces. Strong chiaroscuro, disturbing horror close-ups, parallel montages and other elements directly influenced later horror films and film noirs. The forward-looking idea of man-machine integration has been repeatedly cited in many subsequent sci-fi movies. The architectural design in Metropolis is very postmodern and surreal.
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Bertha 2022-03-25 09:01:06
MOMA Rooftop, restored version, live soundtrack by Shanshui Records. Electronic music brings a sense of the future of the moment, a strange and unusual form that associates the highly developed, abstract industrial-class society with the electronic age. Electronic music is depersonalized, but integrated. It amplifies the effect in emotional scenes and becomes unstable in dialogue. Needless to say, the greatness of the film itself, the people will always be blind and hot.
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The Machine Man: [disguised as Maria] Leave the machines - ! Let them race to their death -! To the Heart Machine - !
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Joh Frederson: [Talking on a video phone] Open the gates! Open the gates, I said!
Grot - the Guardian of the Heart Machine: If the Heart Machine is destroyed the entire machine district will end up in ruins - !