Thoughts & Questions

Idella 2022-03-18 08:01:01

The steampunk retro film set in New York in the early 20th century, the whole picture is reduced to a hole and the way of expression is quite nostalgic.

The so-called conflict between robots and humans has already emerged. The people at the bottom are deprived of job opportunities by robots, and at the same time, the upper class adopts a policy of apartheid against robots. This is a serious problem that may occur in the near future.

Why are President Boone and Duke Rhett blackfaced? To set off white hair and blonde hair?

Rhett felt ashamed of his adopted orphan ROCK calling himself a father because he thought he was not worthy of being his son, but in turn, this fanatical and paranoid desire to be recognized by his father distorted ROCK and made him a cruel and cruel man. killer.

By the way, there is a dark line of robot riots at the beginning of this film?

What do the huge mechanical dragon fish in the former sheriff's office and the bureaucratic style imply?

The heroine TIMA has the appearance of an Aryan race, with blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin. Does this allude to the superior race that NAZI respects? Or does the author also agree that a perfect human should be like this?

The integrated fire robot is interesting.

After the fire broke out, the old man Haruzakuzaka rushed in with his nephew Kenichi? Do you want to die in order to investigate the case?

Dr. Rowton is wanted for organ smuggling, but he claims TIMA is a full machine, is he hiding something?

Although it is used as a metaphor for the Tower of Babel, as a super weapon that affects sunspots, Kiguri is located on the highest tower in the center of the metropolis. Isn't it afraid of being attacked by other countries as a target? What about the inhabitants of big cities? as a hostage?

During the experiment of interfering with the sun, knowing that it will affect the robots on the surface, but doing nothing, just brutally suppressing it afterwards? Not considering the impact on society? But that's what humans do.

The underground party credulously believes in the government's promise, and can only be used as a pawn to be used, and cannot escape the fate of being calculated.

The excuse for rioting on the grounds that humans can't abandon their emotions feels unreasonable. But when you think about it, it is true that humans cannot escape emotional control, so the spiral of hatred is always there.

A candle appeared on the head of the presidential secretary before he was shot. Is it the author's bad taste?

President Boone, who plotted to rebel against Duke Rhett, was killed by the general, and that was the fate of the politician.

TIMA didn't say much in the first half, and in the second half, he just shouted to find Kenichi, and then he was attracted by the throne and turned black. There are no lines in the whole film to show her self. There is a bird standing on her shoulders, which is considered by the people below to be the incarnation of an angel.

So in the end it is still the same old saying: creator is destroyed by his creation. Let TIMA be transformed into skynet.

It is obvious that TIMA has been blackened and no longer retains the memory of the past. I don't understand why Kenichi is desperate to wake up TIMA. The two are just acquaintances for the first time, will they fight to the extent of death? Because Kenichi is very kind? Because he was attracted by TIMA's beauty and fell in love with TIMA?

In fact, TIMA reminds me of NIA in Tianyuan Breakthrough. It was also rescued by SIMON after blackening, but after all, the two lived and died together for a long time, and they were also married.

What does it mean when the robots are holding the parts of TIMA after they have been smashed to pieces?


Plot flaws:

Kenichi disappeared after the fire, and as an uncle, the old man didn't seem to be worried at all;

in ZONE 3, facing ROCK who killed people without blinking an eye, Kenichi was still unhurried and unnerved;

ROCK traced the whereabouts of TIMA but only one of his men No, after discovering TIMA and Kenichi, he brought a group of people to chase

Reid. Why did he bring the old man and Kenichi into the core of Kiguri? Why do you specifically want TIMA to change clothes?

The old man just threw the notebook as key evidence in front of Reid?

Is TIMA blackening just because it walks into a certain range of the throne? But before getting closer to the throne, it didn't trigger the blackening? What is the cause of the blackening?

The one that ROCK pressed was the self-destruct button? So simple to destroy the entire metropolis? What are you kidding?

What is the final fate of that soldier? What do those background pictures mean after the assassination of the president?



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Extended Reading
  • Era 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    Under the disproportionate demise of jazz, everything is just right. In the end, she wants to return to herself and leave a hand that she can't hold, otherwise the sentence "Who am I" has no meaning. If the robot is also deeply in love with people, then it is better to do the former. There are shadows of Otomo Keyang everywhere in the painting style, which is not beautiful enough, but wins with exquisite backgrounds. The wind blew, and in the halo, Tima's hair seemed to breathe.

  • Cheyenne 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    7.5, I don't like the 3D background very much, the technology is too rough. The best is the soundtrack, Otomo Keyang's screenwriter is acceptable, and the worst is the director, which directly lowers the standard of this classic film.

Metropolis quotes

  • Duke Red: [is wearing ancient Babylonian-style clothes and standing on a platform. The background behind him is in Sepia tone and clouds are moving about] At this moment we as a nation are about to touch the stars! I tremble at the honour of announcing the culmination of mankind's history of intellectual and scientific achievement. Yesterday our power spanned the Earth, today it can illuminate the heavens! May it stand forever! Our Ziggurat!

  • Tima: [Tima has just discovered that she is a robot, not a human] I am an artificial human. A machine created to conquer the world and destroy it.