Metropolis Film Review

    I found the Metropolis film quite enjoyable. I was amazed at how much technology they had to create such a film during the times they did. In addition, the plot was thoroughly thought through and did not leave any open endings. The film shows this futuristic city that looks incredible until you see underneath where there are workers. Spending 10 hours of their day in the dark underground, using their blood to help the machines, working until their bones feel as if they are going to break, only to do it again the next day. While you have the upper class like Joh Fredersen, who runs the city but pretends he does not know about the pain and agony his workers are facing. His son Freder becomes intrigued with the main female character Maria; he becomes infatuated with her so much that he dresses like a worker to see her once again. At the end of the work day, the workers came together in the catacombs, where Maria preached to them the legend of the "Tower of Babel." The story is about the people of Babel who wanted to create a tower that reaches into the stars. On the top of the tower within the stars, it would say, "Great is the world and its creator! And great is Man!." However, when it came to making the tower, those who had thought of it found that it was too big of a task for them, so they hired people to create it for them. "One man's hymns of praise became other men's curses." Those who could speak the same language could not communicate; the hands and the head were unable to share, so they needed the heart to be the mediator. This is the point of the movie Metropolis the workers and Joh Fredersen needed a mediator to help them communicate, and that was Freder. Overall I thought it was a great film!