30th November 2005, 1:40 PM
Quote:You say Metropolis like it's some bastion that speaks across generations and to the human condition, abstractifying some aspect of reality into a form that is recognizable by the average person for what it is.
Not only does the film speak volumes of man's inherent desire to create life and his love/hate relationship with the opposite sex but also of his fear of the future and its security. Will you live on the skyscrapers enjoying life's pleasures or toil in the boilers and machines slaving your life for them. For the audience we see the Olympus like skyscrapers holding untruths and giving its people a false sense of reality, even to the point of making them weak. While th people who slave for their government under the city have a strength and understanding - we see (as th audience) that if these two worlds would collide it could be massive panic... or very beneficial. But it also speaks of a man's good intentions and how those intentions are viewed by a world - fear of change, fear of the unknown.
But more than anything, it speaks of man's greatest evil, our desire to be more than what we are. To think that we can perfect God's greatest creation.
A side from that, the film is also well made with beautiful special effects and a story that is told as to be accepted by everyone in any culture of any age and is still entertaining to this day. You can even find it in Blockbuster. In every film school around the world, Metropolis is the foundation to which we build our knowledge of what a film is (well and some others too but Metropolis is the coolest :D).