Saw Metropolis (1927)

[configsys]

99 years later and audiences are still wooting and clapping like they never saw it coming.

But seriously, cool movie but really muddled themes I didn't really get. I guess it's warning of populism? But the class warfare is not settled in any meaningful way. Also the guy on the organ, holy fuck 2.5 hours of playing without a break, amazing.

 

[Hardy_C_Huckle]

i saw it at the AFI theater in Silver Spring Maryland in late 2019, with a 4-person experimental orchestra (Alloy Orchestra) and it was great.

The movie's themes are incredibly muddled by modern standards. It's not really a left or a right wing film (re: locating it in terms of the proper political relation between workers and owners) even as its a film "about" that conflict. It's more of a fable than a polemic or a coherent social problem film.

 

[configsys]

i saw it at the AFI theater in Silver Spring Maryland in late 2019, with a 4-person experimental orchestra (Alloy Orchestra) and it was great.

The movie's themes are incredibly muddled by modern standards. It's not really a left or a right wing film (re: locating it in terms of the proper political relation between workers and owners) even as its a film "about" that conflict. It's more of a fable than a polemic or a coherent social problem film.

Yeah, the Babylon stuff came through but it's a weird way to present that. I don't have any context for 1920s German cinema so I figured I'm just missing something about the art of the time, but clearly the class piece must have been important to them or they wouldn't have included it as a heavy theme, they just didn't do anything with it.

 

[Crabsoccer]

If anything it's very visually impressive. It is a bit muddled as you say as far as is it pro worker or pro industrialist or pro technology or anti-technology. Guess Fritz was doing the both sides thing.