The pointer of the pre-modern city may pause for a second in a trance moment

Chase 2022-04-20 09:01:34

With the variations of the Marseillaise, the classical temperance and balance are swept away, the "mind" and "behavior" of the metropolis are twisted and mad, as if faith is the ultimate fantasy of science, without the connection of the heart, religion is evil and technology is ugly, and human existence boils down to for the function and structure of society. So do proverbs and doctrines still have primordial logic, and will revelation also become cheap depreciation in the age of mechanical reproduction? Isn't the core that makes the huge gears turn and drives the whole machine running on every original sin, and isn't the dripping beast on the bell tower of Notre Dame also a relic of a former delusion? ——The Tower of Babel, the tower that symbolizes the final disillusionment of the eternal limit of mankind, a set of oracles encoded with zero and one, an entangled history of a double helix structure, must sink and be lost in the mirror image of its hell, corrupt. Did the children who survived the flood, Maria, who was burned at the stake, really have a chance to escape the mix of steel and marble? Can you recognize the imprint of the soul on the covenant when each body is abstracted into labor on a dial, turning its face for the promised scale?

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  • Orland 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Science fiction milestone.

  • Melyssa 2022-03-21 09:01:40

    Stripped of the mighty sci-fi or comic art, Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" and Lubitsch's "The Corner Shop" tell the same story: the bosses (capitalists) are good-natured but inevitably human. The weakness is used by the villains around him, and he is angry with the male protagonist (son or regarded as a son) in the film. A model labor representative (foreman or runner) saves the boss at a critical moment. The boss resolutely changed his mind and changed his mind, and was fair to the male protagonist. Justice is done, the villain is punished for losing power, labor and capital are harmonious again, and the corner shop or the metropolis is revived!  … It's natural to know that: Metropolis is not a dystopia at all! It is a conspiracy and sinister plot at a terrible price after the cruel truth of the world's operation is told to warn the people who are eager to act daringly, in order to avoid the disaster. As for the so-called solution of "connecting hands with hearts", it doesn't really matter whether it is naive and effective. The key is the "be safe, don't be impatient and think about the long term" released by the work. Ironically, however, with the rapid rise of the Nazis, the kind of social stability Lang favored was disrupted, forcing him to turn to the Dark Mabus series again. My brain is broken, I don't want to talk.

Metropolis quotes

  • Monk in the Pulpit: Verily, I say unto you, the days spoken of in the Apocalypse are nigh!

  • Freder: I must have a person who is faithful to me, Josaphat - how else will I be able to fulfill my destiny - ?