Oh! I loved this movie so much that I don't even know where to start! The fact that Metropolis was produced on the 20's didn't give me high hopes at first. However, the perfect coordination of an in-depth meaning and photography, soundtrack and motion, and most important of all, the impacting expression of strong emotions towards the crude reality of capitalism, left me more speechless than the movie itself! It is totally worth watching and do not mind the length--it will not matter if you get enrolled by the message. Should we leave capitalism do its "magic" where surplus is squeezed on a few hands thanks to the undermined labor? Should be break the system and ask for revolution? Or should we find a mediator, a heart, between head and hands? We are still nine years away from 2026. Now it is on us to compare how different is Metropolis' version of the system from our current social and economic inequality and maybe that way, we can find the correct answer to all of these questions.
Review of Metropolis
Metropolis
(1927)
The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart
10 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers