metropolis
1. The underground factory explosion machine eats people?
2. The relationship between the city and traffic (the son goes to see the father 00:18)
3. "Those people are my siblings...I want to know about them..." (00:23)
"Father, in your great city, you are the brain of the city, and all of us live under the light of the city" (00:23) "Where are the people who built this city for you with their hands? What?" "Where do they belong? Underground?"
4. Master Fred walked into the underground factory and saw the workers at work.
"The machine! Someone has to watch the machine!"
The young master and the worker exchanged identities. The young master experienced the underground life, the workers went to the above world, and were dazzled by the world of money and money.
5. (00:38) The father came to the inventor's house
6. Young master works in engineering
"Father, father! Ten hours of work never ends!" Here's a call for workers' rights (00:46)
7. Overlay of the catacomb floor plan and the workers walking down (00:48)
8. (00:50) Master found Maria in the underground, Maria was holding a rally and telling stories
9. (00:53) The story of the Tower of Babel
The people who built the Tower of Babel with their hands knew nothing about this dream conceived by the brain Babel
Barrage: Fill the empty spiritual world of workers with cultural entertainment, making workers unwilling to change.
One man's hymn becomes another man's curse.
People communicate with each other but cannot understand each other
10. The coordinator between the brain and the hands must be the heart
Barrage: Brain = capitalist upper class hands = proletarian labor workers heart = religion (00:55)
Master becomes the coordinator
Maria is captured by King Roth
end of prologue
11. The Master and the Seven Deadly Sins Statue
12. The young master picks up pieces of Maria's clothes (first-person view!) (01:22)
13. (01:24) Maria is replaced by a robot
14. (01:30) King Roth's dinner begins
Capitalists see Maria emerging from center stage
Maria's bizarre dance confuses capitalists, it becomes a symbol of the Seven Deadly Sins (01:33)
Creating Chaos in Art Scenarios: Metaphors, Transformations, and Reality
The emergence of the seven deadly sins has caused chaos in the capitalists' society, and the demons will meet each other.
15. "The only thing that binds workers is their expectation of the coordinator's commitment" (01:35)
16. "Maria" stirs up workers' emotions in Labour City (01:41) "Tear down the machines" workers are outraged (transposition Marseillaise)
17. Rally in the square
"No man or woman will be left behind"
18. Workers break into the production workshop
Barrage: Two extremes, one is the alienation of humans into machines, and the other is the destruction of industrialization by humans
Predictability of technology: Frederick and his staff have videophones and CCTV
A machine and a city
19. The city of labor was submerged, and the real Maria and the children of the laborers were helpless in the water
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