Extended Reading
  • Otha 2022-03-16 09:01:03

    You may be tired and confused after reading it, so let me be a porter

    "Metropolis" is an extremely important film in the history of film, "the originator of science fiction", the "most expensive" silent film, and is listed by UNESCO as a "Memory of the World Project". It was 20 years earlier than the first feature film "Bridge" in New China. It was a must-see for...

  • Wiley 2022-03-21 09:01:40

    Rooted in German social politics, predicting the next eighteen years of history

    The film, which I watched at the "100 Years of Silent Films - Live Soundtrack" Film Festival in Berlin Babylon late last month, was originally composed by Gottfried Huppertz and accompanied by the Berlin Babylon Orchestra. With the help of the film sources saved in Bologna and the 6-minute clips...

  • 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

  • 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...