Metropolis Comments

  • Dillon 2023-06-10 10:16:59

    8.6 Fritz Lang displayed the concepts of the future and science fiction on the screen naturally and realistically, creating special effects of robots, scheduling group performances, and shaping the background. These are all epoch-making milestones in science fiction movies. Although it is a silent film, the expression is clear and the style is comedic, and the look and feel is not boring. Several symbols of montage and expressionism make the visual effect of the film very good. Brigitte...

  • Trisha 2023-05-07 19:44:08

    How can such a movie be made in 1927! It should be in 2027, 3027, 4027... German Expressionism, and it ends but doesn't stop there. It belongs to every thousand years, dreams, nightmares, struggles, and eerie beauty wrapped in fear and hysteria. With such a wonderful musical expression, dancing puppets and beauties, robots and devils. The devil chops off your head with a scythe, and you see an...

  • Conrad 2023-04-03 22:55:43

    The earliest dystopian cyberpunk films, with cyber control and punk rebellion. In the sci-fi films of the era after direct radiation, there is a Metropolis screw in each CT. Cyberpunk originally had nothing to do with neon lights. It aimed to explore the confrontation between man and power and high pressure, the relationship between man and machine, and considered the negative impact of technology on human beings. The advance of "Metropolis" is that there is "Metropolis" first, and then there...

  • Retta 2023-02-12 21:25:08

    I am glad that such a movie was completely restored in 2010. It is indeed a very good movie. 1895's "The Arrival of the Train" may have scared people, but 1927's "Metropolis" surprised me - how much did the director spend to hire so many actors and build such a grand the scenery. Finally, I complained that the daring labor movement was shaped into a mob...

  • Melissa 2023-02-07 05:33:53

    (150min) The idea of ​​this film is very good. The female protagonist's body language is sophisticated and provocative, and the others show pain either with a head or a bitter face. The male and female protagonists of "Titanic" resemble the male and female protagonists of the film, and the prototype may be the flooded part of the film. Can't tempt human nature, who didn't have a good intention at the beginning. The only people who can stand the test in their lives are the few people who are...

  • Ruthe 2023-01-26 12:14:34

    Ausgezeichnet! Expressionism, futurism, symbolism, dystopian, agenda-driven...

  • Gerardo 2023-01-26 04:11:35

    The public are ignorant and gullible witch hunters. The rulers are empty-handed, and they are helpless in the face of crises. Leftists and intellectuals-scientists-women have been demonized as demagogues and behind-the-scenes masterminds who brought about the flood. The "heart" as the key to solving social conflicts seems so pale. Expressionism reached its creative peak and end here, and the future of German society in a few years' time was looming and unstoppable. Five stars for art style,...

  • Jake 2023-01-25 20:54:56

    Such a serious film, I have always felt very fond of it. No matter how serious a silent film is, there is still a hint of humor in it, but it does not hinder the light of the film...

  • Clementine 2023-01-08 13:14:02

    The biblical interpretation of the Tower of Babel is a perfect sermon! Religious awareness, social reflection, and endless imaginative creativity have created such a masterpiece. Of course, Lang's admirable images and expressiveness are still suffocating, but they have not concealed the strength of the content itself. It is not enough to have a rich imagination, it is the precise foresight and reality that make the film immortal. The man inside talks like he wants to kiss! That's...

  • Antwan 2023-01-07 00:02:26

    the one and only Metropolis~worldly...

Extended Reading
  • Einar 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    1.21

    a German film, 1927. "the mediator between hand and head is the heart"


    a lot of religious elements from Christianity :

    Freder-Christ, the God. for freder, the orientation of sextuality (bad maria dance) is related with his bad dream. (the seven deadly sins) the meet of freder and good maria is about

    Abdiel 2022-04-20 09:01:34

    Create a better new life

    Robot punk, reels, pistons, steam. Unlike the mechanical worship of the Soviet Union, the people here are also similar to machines and are not endowed with feelings. Under the sun, is another world. I thought it would be a story similar to "Brave New World", but it turned out to be an elite...

Metropolis quotes

  • Maria: HEAD and HANDS need a mediator. THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!

    Worker #1: But where is our mediator, Maria - ?

    Maria: Wait for him! He will surely come!

    Worker #2: We will wait, Maria...! But not much longer - - !

  • Maria: Today I will tell you the legend of THE TOWER OF BABEL... "Come, let us build us a tower whose top may reach unto the stars! And the top of the tower we will write the words: Great is the world and its Creator! And great is Man!" But the minds that had conceived the Tower of Babel could not build it. The task was too great. So they hired hands for wages. But the hands that built the Tower of Babel knew nothing of the dream of the brain that had conceived it. BABEL. BABEL. BABEL. BABEL. One man's hymns of praise became other men's curses. People spoke the same language, but could not understand each other...