The movie we watched yesterday, "Metropolis" is completely a SF movie. It was interesting, but to tell the truth, while the class, I felt so sleepy that I carelessly yawned for many times. The classroom was dark, and the movie was almost silent and a monochrome film, and...
-Who are the main character?
Freder, who is Joh Fredersen’s son, and Maria, who is a young girl.
-What is the theme of film?
Mediator should exist as a heart between head and hands in order to link them.
-What lesson or moral do we learn at the end?
Probably, all of you have understood the preceding theme or the similar one, which is just a lesson or a moral this movie shows. As far as I watched it partially without a preliminary knowledge, I guess "head" means the intellectual class or capitalism, and "hands" means the working class. Needless to say, the world in "Metropolis" had excessive class distinctions. Maybe, this implies a social state of affairs in the world of those days. Beside, in order to break the distinction, the man whose right hand is artificial would have bid the evil Maria to give rise to a class conflict by using workers efficiently(*This is completely my speculation, so don't believe it.). This incident is similar to a strike in a sense. From this point, I felt fearfulness and danger of group psychology.
Eventually, Freder became a mediator between his father as a ruler and workers. Is this happy end?? I question whether this is happy end or not. Anyway, it is true that what this movie shows is an universal lesson to survive in this society. A big bridge is needed to link two cliffs. Freder is also big and generous enough to be a mediator. Today, such a person may be needed in this society!
I am interested in the purpose why this movie was created, so I will look over this movie!
