directed by Frtiz Lang
No words can describe how amazing this movie is! A true masterpiece of science fiction cinema. It is mind blowing how all this was achieved in 1927.
"The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!"
Synopsis for Film Class:
SPOILER ALERT
The dystopian society in Metropolis is split into the
privileged Upper Class and the poor working Lower Class. Freder, the son of the
Master of the city Joh Fredersen, meets the mysterious Maria, and follows her
underground where he discovers the inhumane conditions of the workers that run the
machines. Appalled, Freder tells his father, who finds out his workers have
secret underground meetings run by Maria. Joh instructs the scientist Rotwang
to give a robot he made the face of Maria, so as to use her as a tool to incite
unrest amongst the workers. The false Maria inspires the workers to destroy the
machines, but eventually they turn on her and burn her at stake. Freder then
battles a crazed Rotwang to save the real Maria. Balance is finally restored
when Freder becomes the mediator between the Upper and Lower classes, the
“heart” between “the head and hands.”
I thought Brigitte Helm was so very beautiful in her role of Maschinenmensch (machine-human).
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