Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.

A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...

me: yeah i'm definitely smart enough to understand the plot of this movie even if it's silent
my inability to tell white men apart: 👁👄👁

blade runner is just metropolis for people who are too impatient to sit through a silent movie

90/100

MKE Film Fest #4

('The Complete Metropolis' with live performance by the Alloy Orchestra)

"For her - all seven deadly sins!"

Truly a dream alive on the screen. Continues to be immensely influential - so much so that naming all the examples could result in its very own click-bait list (I'm sure there's already one out in the wild) - and each frame is lush, crisp, and inventive in a way that is astonishing - even more so today. The final 20 minutes, combined with the tremendous Alloy Orchestra score reverberating within the theater, are as climatic as cinema gets, rising towards the heavens, a hero fully reborn.

Possibly the most celebrated director from Germany's school of expressionism, Fritz Lang unfolds Metropolis in a procession of impressive scenes and it’s an undeniable science-fiction classic. Written by Thea von Harbou, in collaboration with Lang, it commenced principal photography in 1925 and evolved unique ideas and techniques for the science-fiction genre.

From the enormous design and scale of the Art Deco sets to it’s governmentally fused medieval themes, along with the remarkable strangeness of the imagery conveyed by the elegant mechanical replicant by Brigitte Helm, it’s the astonishing design of the movie that continues as its genuine distinction, which is even present in the maze-like intricacies of the employees' residence. Fritz Lang creates a haunting conception of industrial industry and it’s accompanied by a beautiful and original score by Gottfried Huppertz.

maria: "yeah i'm looking for a mr. rotwang, first name C.A...."
moe: "hey anybody here C.A. ROTWANG??! cmon guys, i wanna C.A. ROTWANG!!"

Metropolis is a gargantuan tale of epic biblical proportions that absolutely deserves all its acclaim. Massively influential and consistently engaging, it just continued to wow me. For its time, the art design, cinematography, effects, score are all simply amazing. They remain timeless and hard hitting.

The narrative is spellbinding and as you watch it, so many films you’ve seen before pop into your head as you realise this came well before all of them. There are some scenes that I’ll never forget such as the hallucination scene where it is unprecedented what they do to create these effects. Having physically experimented with celluloid film to achieve extremely basic effects myself, I have no idea how they did some of these things.

A two and half hour silent film might seem like work to some but this sure wasn’t for me. It’s on YouTube so go check it out and tick it off the essential viewing list if you haven’t.

Did I enjoy it? no, do I feel confident enough to give it a bad grade? also no.

I really disliked the music.

Possibly the greatest work of centrist cinema ever made

Bro, back in the day when they made propaganda? It’s one of the best films ever made. 
Now all we get is Marvel movie propaganda. 
:/

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Mana, ¡qué verguero esta película! Parece la dramatización de un capitulo de Caso Cerrado meets Laura en América, pero en Alemania futurista.

I am very impressed. La dirección está 🤯. La edición 50/10. Se los juro que pensé que me iba a aburrir, pero I couldn't keep my eyes off of the screen. Esos mega stages y la cantidad de extras were blowing my mind the entire time.

La historia, casi 100 años después, está más current que nunca.

Also, SCI-FI AGAIN. ¿Qué es mi weekend? JAJA es como navidad en febrero.

PS: Metropolis > Vertigo. Don't @ me.

The best parts of this are amazing, and I can see the influence on other, later sci-fi projects that lean on some parts of film language (movies, comics, video games). The shots of the city of the future are particularly impressive, and I love the neon lights and rhythmic scenes of work shown throughout the movie. Nonetheless the romance at the center reminds me too much of the way Griffith films a love story, and I have nothing but disdain for Griffith's love stories. The beating heart of humanity that is meant to be at the center of this technical marvel is stilted, vague, and sentimental in a way it does not earn. Also during production Lang did that auteur thing that I hate where he made the cast and crew suffer for his art. This is just bad directing, no matter the outcome. A real mixed bag.

Amazing.

He visto la versión que hay en Filmin de 90 minutos y música de los ochenta. Incluso canta Freddy Mercury. Muy distópico todo. Visualmente espectacular, un hito para la época. Argumento ingenuo (¿o no tanto?). El patrón y el obrero dándose la mano al final pueden conmigo... o es ingenuidad o es fascistoide, directamente. Prefiero mil veces la etapa americana de Fritz Lang. Ahí es donde creo que alcanzó cotas de maestro.

I refuse to believe this was made in 1927

The set is fantastic, the music was brilliant (though maybe not suited to every single scene), the lighting, makeup, everything was subtle but had a huge effect (especially the makeup).

It was definitely long and I didn’t watch it all in one sitting that would’ve been too much to ask for me watching a silent film, but wow I’m impressed.

he really risked it all

Though it towers with grandeur, effects, and visions well ahead of its time, Metropolis may be too long of a silent film for some 21st century viewers to endure.

The mediator of the head and the hands must be the heart.

The head symbolizes the upper classes, while the hands are a symbol for the workers.
That's how the movie ends. Even though it leaves us speechless, it also gives us food for thought at the same time.
The solution to this problem that hasn't been solved for over 90 years (since the movie has been released) sounds like a fairy tale, but it sounds logical as well. We should all think about that.