Metropolis

Metropolis

At the start of the movie, I saw the rotation of the gear and the images changed quickly, a big machine started to whiff. The background looked like a morning of a city. I guess this city maybe belong to America, it is maybe happened in 20th century. Because the film appeared many planes, cars and viaducts. In 20th centuary, America was already reached this level.

Then the frames went to a very dark place, this is the location 1. Two teams of workers, they all wear black clothes and looked down, movement automatically and they are organized orderly, everyone did the same motion. One team went in and another team came out. All of these workers looked like lifeless. It was very depressive. This film use dark light, it made audience felt depressive and tired. When this workers all in an elevator, then this elevator fall.

In location 2, firstly, a runway appeared, some young man were prepared to raced. Then the imaged went to a beautiful garden, some women wear retro and floridly dress, they took photos and an old steward refined the make-up for these women. A young man appeared, he maybe the host of this garden and he is the mainly character of this film, because he also wear exquisite clothes and the next story were used his angle of view to evolution. By the way, all these actors in this film make-up were very exaggerated, it has huge contrast with their skin. The host were played hide-and-seek with a girl, they use exaggerated actions, the light show a lively sense.  When they almost kissed, a beautiful girl with a group child appeared, the rich young man was attracted by her beauty and followed her to that factory. He was shocked by the sense of the factory. All the workers motion unified, it use dark light to show these workers were oppressed by capitalism. Suddenly, the factory exploded, many factors got injured, but soon, other factors quickly replaced. The young man was scared, he seemed the factory became a monster, many workers was eaten by the monster. He can not endured al of this. He run out of this factory to find his father-factory director.

In this film, the actors said nothing, they just use actions and emotions to express the theme of this film. The theme is in developed city, capitalist oppress poor workers, the society was dark. The development of the society was depended on the labour of that workers.I guess maybe this young man can save these workers ‘s destiny and fall in love with that girl.