Movies are not just awesome sci-fi scenes

Sophie 2022-04-23 07:01:40

1. In 1927, German filmmakers built such a fraudulent metropolitan scene. After 90 years, it is highly consistent and avant-garde with the current metropolis;

2. The proletariat lives in underground cities, and the rich enjoy a luxurious life on the ground. Seeing this setting, you will not be surprised by some sci-fi works and movies of later generations;

3. In the 1920s, the proletariat movement was rising all over the world, and violent movements were frequent, and the director pointed out the reasons for it;

4. In the director's vision, the class contradictions of the proletariat and capitalism can be coordinated, but they can never be integrated, so the film has the image of "coordinator";

5. The film was blocked by the German authorities as soon as it was produced. The 210-minute full version has not been restored yet, and the 10-year restored version with a quarter of the length was lost;

6. A few years after the film was released, the Nazis in Germany came to power and the whole people rioted. Thinking about it carefully, it's really ironic.

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Extended Reading
  • Anne 2022-03-21 09:01:40

    The greatest significance of the 150-point full version is to reveal that the debut of Mechanical Maria is not a single act, but a Trinity montage of the wine pool, the meat forest, the court before the bed, and the Apocalypse of the Seven Deadly Sins. Communism started with machinery, was embraced by capitalists, and finally embraced labor. The inevitable spark of revolution is actually the same starting point and ending point. In God's eyes, this absurd cycle is not reincarnation, but human sin. A finishing touch.

  • Jason 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Watching German expressionist films today is absurd and horrifying, but when I think of the film's early exploration in 1927, the director had such an amazing imagination, it's really a magical film. Apart from the exaggerated stage beauty and performance, the thinking about the mechanical life of the future industrial society and the loss of human nature really crosses the times. You can find the predecessors of many of today's film techniques in it, and the classics should be like this.

Metropolis quotes

  • Freder: MOLOCH!

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