Metropolis:
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Froehlich, Rudolf Kleine Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Metropolis is the place of the oppressed worker. It is the underground world, the machine, the proletariat society that allows the modern bourgeois society thriving. The only thing that keeps the machine going is their belief and faith in God and religion. However, the bourgeois society falls apart after the its attempts to bring disention amongst the workers by removing God from their lives fails.
Reason for Importance
Metropolis was Fritz Lang's most famous and probably his best film. Its
influence can be seen in many later and even resent movies such as
Dark City, The Matrix, and the The Thirteeth Floor. It manages to
incorporate conmmunism, science fiction, and religion into a story
that is still relevent today.
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