Metropolis was a silent film. I didn’t expect there to be any dialogue, however I must say I expected alot of music and sounds, but did not here many. I like having dialogue and words, but this film pretty much was self-explanatory. Its closeups and visual screenshots on certain things and on the city helped to tell the story. This particular film is categorized as a German expressionist film. It broadcasted the mind of an individual about how he sees the world via his perspective or outlook on the industrial world. It tends to both celebrate the development of a city, but at the same time shun the workers and builders of the city. In so little words and so many pictures, it displays the kinda sociological view of the haves versus the have-nots and man versus machine point-of-view. There are the capitalists(the haves) who have everything and are working the the laborers (have-nots) below them. The producer and writer of this film seems to show a fear of machines taking over and to warn against technology. I couldn’t help but to think about the movie I, Robot where Will Smith is like the only person who sees the robots and advancement of technology as a bad thing. In the scene on Metropolis where the big machine eats all of the workers, I couldn’t help but think of how the machine or rather the computer on I, Robot was controlling things and killing people. In both films, the machines were taken over the workers or the makers. They both seem to fear developing technology like many films of the past that warn against advanced technology because they believe it is grown too much and gotten a bit out of hand. It is like a call for people to pay attention like a prophecy for future years or something. Anyway over all a great silent film that was somewhat comedic to me at times.
