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Rhapsody of the Industrial Revolution
Adolf 2022-03-23 09:01:39
In this acclaimed black-and-white silent film, the 1920s film offers a startling vision of the skyscraper metropolis of the future. Movies always have the characteristics of the times. This movie, born in the budding era of European industrial revolution capital, is to illustrate the contradiction between the working class and the ruling class. This is also an insightful prediction. After that, many earth-shaking struggles and changes have taken place in the world. The fundamental reason is the conflict between the socialist concept and the capitalist concept. So watching this silent film a century later does have its reasons for being epic.
Extended Reading
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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.
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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.
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Joh Frederson: [Talking on a video phone] Open the gates! Open the gates, I said!
Grot - the Guardian of the Heart Machine: If the Heart Machine is destroyed the entire machine district will end up in ruins - !
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Grot - the Guardian of the Heart Machine: Who told you to attack the machines, you fools? Without them you'll all die!
Working Woman: It's the witch's fault - !