Artwork from a century ago

Sunny 2022-03-17 09:01:04

When I was curious about what kind of sci-fi film could be made in 1927, I clicked on this film, after all, my grandfather was only 1 year old in that year;

The scene where the workers change shifts at the beginning is quite amazing, and then one after another amazing pictures hit: about the illusion of Vulcan, the statue of HEL, the imagination of the Tower of Babel, the robot face changing, the magic dance of the machine MARIA and the combination of the seven deadly sins , workers overturn machines, innocent MARIA saves children, etc.

A day has passed after watching the film, and these pictures are vivid in my mind;

I think this is a film about religion, about divinity and humanity~ The sentence that appeared in the beginning with an epigram: The mediator of the mind and the skillful hand is the heart. Although I have not fully understood it, I feel that the heart seems to express Faith~

This is another movie about love. Fred fell in love with MARIA at first sight, and Fredson and Lord Lord have a rival status~

This video covers a lot of content. I only watched the 150-minute version. I'm really curious about how much information and content the original film has in more than three hours~

If the director is contemporary, I don't know what kind of works will be created~

I really hope someone can remake it

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Extended Reading
  • Idella 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    Very talented. However, I really don't understand if the big boss is out of his mind and let the robot incite everyone to destroy his machine? Is it just for the water flooding workers' residential area? ~~The heroine loves to grab her left breast and preach about peace. She is very mindless, but the robot sister is very handsome~~ If there is no riot she has set up, the capitalists will not have the opportunity to bow their heads~~

  • Elissa 2022-01-27 08:06:45

    When the German audience in 1927 saw this movie, they were definitely more visually shocked than when I saw Avatar. In other respects, it was not comparable to any Hollywood movie. It is not appropriate to place hopes on the reformists as mediators of social conflicts, but Fritz Lang actually parables the conflict between the development of information technology and ethics, communist chaos, and mob politics will bring serious disasters to Germany.

Metropolis quotes

  • Freder: MOLOCH!

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