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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  • Alanna 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Dungeon - Platonov "Foundation Pit"? Strictly speaking, the post-World War I movies did not completely replace the themes of the pre-World War I movies, but due to the introduction of German Expressionism, those modernist elements were treated gloomily and mysteriously, and films that showed "dehumanizing consequences" Themes replace the fascination with modernity, as in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926). Architect Le Corbusier's "Shining City" shows the "efficiency", "simple" and "order" of machine aesthetics. The city with distinct divisions, the highway between the towering skyscrapers, and the open ground floor green space all demonstrate the perfect and functionalist future life in Le Corbusier's mind. At this time, people's fantasies about future cities are no longer as wild as the steam era. This imagination has a little more fear and a little more caution.

  • Ike 2022-03-22 09:01:34

    [A] The 150-minute restored version of 2010 can't help but feel a sense of admiration for Frieze. What kind of soul could have produced such a cross-era classic in 1927! Myth, religion, production, class, technology and reason, these ultimate propositions covering all human existence are all included in a black and white silent film, even after nearly a century, the ideas conveyed by this film are still so impressive Admiration is the greatest swan song of silent film. If "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Blade Runner" are classics that can be remembered in film history, then this "Metropolis" is a handed down work that can be included in the intangible cultural heritage of the United Nations.

Metropolis quotes

  • Freder: MOLOCH!

  • Freder: To the new Tower of Babel - to my father - !