From the film “METROPOLIS “When I heard my professor talked about of this film during the history class, I thought this must be another boring old historical film. It is early morning and it is a history class. I felt so sleepy. But I never thought this kind of film will get my attention and make me sit up straight with eyes open.
The story begins with the bunch of mass production workers in a large factory. The author try to express the image of industrialize age with workers who working with hopeless pale face in the factory under the world. Their circle-lifes are working and resting with the machine.The only motivate that they have is the sound of the “bell” telling them that it is time to rest. It is such a torture scene.
After that, the story was suddenly shifted to which I rather refer it to a utopian “world”. The man who is a son of metropolis is living his life full of happiness surrounded by the servants. In this scene, the author tried to show the contrast between two classes of people which are low class people ( slaves ) and high class who has a power to control the slaves. The scene emphasize on the unpleasant world of machine age.
The turning point of this film is when “Maria” beutiful woman appears in front of the son of metropolis with group of children. After that Freder run after her to the under world ,and because of this , it leads him to a pathway that he really experience the truth, the life of slaves that working under his feet. In this scene I like the way how this film communicate with the viewers without saying a thing. The author make the viewers get into the core of the film without a dialougue , but from transferring character’s mind about the underworld through the emotion on the faces , and the comparison of the real world and visual world. ( such the scene that comparing between the machine as a monster the symbol of death and hell.)
Moreover, this film tries to show the different social level in that period between the utopia of the wealth and dystopia of the slaves. The age that the slaves have no voice to argue; they forced to work in order to continue their life.The core of this film is focusing on the Maria, who is the only warm light among the workers, and Freder who play a role of “mediator” try to find the middle point between those two classes of people from upper world and underworld creating the revolution to the social life of worker and to the evolution of machine age.
Lastly,The interesting part of this movie is not only about the plot, but also the scene of the future city or “dream” city; the skyscraper, the flyover and etc. The film reveals the direction of how the city will be developing in the future.
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