Film · UFA · 1927
Pass it on
Metropolis
65Worth an evening.
A German sermon with machines, not an American gross of the year.
The review
Don't file this with the American grosses. It isn't one. Metropolis is Lang in Germany: towers up top, a workers' city underneath, a master's son who trades places with a worker. A robot is given a woman's face and sent to wreck both sides. An older child can watch it. The robot can frighten. What the film says is that the heart has to stand between the head and the hands.
I felt the machines more than I felt a family, and that matches the picture. A sermon, with the labor underneath treated as the city's body, and a false face used to set both sides on each other. I'd show an older kid who can take a lecture inside a spectacle. I wouldn't pretend the fame is the same thing as a Hollywood crowd.
Journal
Keep Metropolis in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
The workers' city underneath is the labor the towers are built on.
- 3Household
A master's son and a borrowed face, not a marriage or a child being raised.
- 7Piety
The film's stop is a sermon: the heart between the head and the hands.
- 7Courage
The son trades places with a worker and gives up the master's height.
- 8Republic
Two cities, one above the other, and someone has to answer for both.
- 5Temperance
A robot is sent to wreck both sides, which feeds the split the sermon fears.
- 7Truth
The robot wears a woman's face, a lie aimed at both the towers and the workers.
- 6Stewardship
What it leaves is the sermon, not proof the two cities were reconciled.
Where to watch
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