Since Hollywood started to make ‘moving pictures’ their only experience with backgrounds came from the theater. And these sets were spectacular. Basically, they were just filming a play.
@geraldbrown8711
2 ай бұрын
This is an excellent interpretation/analysis of one of my all time favorite movies
@okuyasuniijimura
2 ай бұрын
Mf that guy on the right in the thumbnail is jeremy elbertson
@-Katastrophe
9 ай бұрын
Germans losing their minds on film in the 1920s. This is what we in the business refer to as foreshadowing.
@cumulusterraticus3446
11 ай бұрын
☝🥸👍👉Anne Clarks SONG SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS IN COMMON MAD POPULIS🎶🎶FITS ! ANNE CLARK SONG SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS And SCIENCE IS AS OFTEN as Steven Koonin 📖 UNSETTLED SAYS ! TOLD TO BE RELATIVE!
@GoldGoneWired
Жыл бұрын
Great video! Please do other old movies!!
@vernonwilliambaumann9321
Жыл бұрын
Metropolis is not social commentary. It's a prediction. What is called predictive programming or Revelation of the Method. It's littered with Biblical and occult symbolism and references. Moloch. The Whore of Babylon. The seven-headed beast. The pentagram. The mark of the beast: the workers losing their humanity to the beast machine; losing their humanity in order to buy and sell...
@normdeplume4082
Жыл бұрын
The tower os Babylon. She is the woman who rides the beast in revelarion
@mikes6961
Жыл бұрын
The professor closing his eyes and having a moment to decide if what he was doing was right, before stealing himself and throwing the switch in Maria's transformation was something that really shows how much thought of humanity was put into this
@mr.emaaejae6058
Жыл бұрын
This is EXACTLY the agenda that the one percent elite (The Deep State) has in store for us when they finally replace us with their A. I. work force. They will then exploit us as support for their entertainment pleasures. This movie was so prophetic!
@SuperSusieBell
Жыл бұрын
I found it to be hypnotic.
@johnarchluleta
Жыл бұрын
Fritz Lang was reporting from Opressed Weimar Republic, post Treaty of Versailles with a warning about those that would worship Moloch as described in Revelation 3:9 Remember; there is nothing new under the sun.
@D_Marrenalv
Жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT review!
@mashy712
Жыл бұрын
What’s scary is that the holocaust would happened just a decade later.
@fookusamatube
Жыл бұрын
You need to revise your review as we are in 2023 giving birth to AI - Mech Maria -
@ronwade2206
Жыл бұрын
Yikes!
@jaythanchew14
Жыл бұрын
nice video
@Mooseman327
Жыл бұрын
Excellent job. Some wonderful insights here. And Lang, himself, told us that he was a visual person. So, focusing on the visual elements like this brings great reward. A couple of things, though. The machine Maria, when she appears to the men at the club appears as "The Whore of Babylon." And Lang mentions this in his film. Lang re-creates the classic (and Biblical) image of this, with the seven serpents. Very specific. Be good to mention this. Also, when the black slaves morph into statues, those statues are the Seven Deadly Sins that we see earlier. They are NOT merely the "workers" as you suggest. Lang and Harbou, the screenwriter, are telling us that The Whore of Babylon sits on a foundation of The Seven Deadly Sins. That's why one of the men, seized with passion, says "For her, all seven deadly sins." Again, this is very specific and should be mentioned in this way. I very much like your comparison of dark and light contrast here. It's spot on, so to speak. Harbou seems to have absorbed lots of the elements of Theosophy and Anthroposophy which were big in Germany at the time, especially the latter. Rudolf Steiner died in 1924, after all. She may have attended his lectures in Berlin and elsewhere. Your comparison of light and dark bring out the Anthroposophical understanding that the "mission" of human beings is to walk the middle path (Harbou's Heart, the Mediator) between the supersensible beings of Lucifer (the light) and Ahriman (the dark). Individual humans are naturally drawn more to one or the other of these spiritual poles but the mission is to walk a fine line between the two, which can also be seen as contrasts of expansion and contraction, freedom and limitation, Yin and Yang, Mind and Body, Heaven and Earth, or even Pride and Despair. If you fail to stay in the middle, you end up serving one of these beings to your soul's detriment. "Metropolis," especially seen through your focus on the visual light and dark elements, can be seen as a depiction of Anthroposophical understandings. The film was criticized from BOTH the political right and the left. From the right for bringing in the "class struggle" elements and the idea that the workers are being suppressed and used by an elite upper class and from the left for portraying the masses as incapable of thinking through their dilemma on their own and coming up with a solution. As being easily manipulated into following strong leaders who promise them freedom and heaven on earth. Both of these criticisms fall completely flat today, knowing as we do that there IS an elite class who is committed to ruling the planet and the majority of people do seem incapable, or unwilling, of utilizing their intellects to figure out things on their own and still follow leaders and authorities blindly. That is, the film "Metropolis," set as it is in 2026 probably can be better understood today than ever before.
@jeandoyle651
22 күн бұрын
Oh, so not so!!! "The film was criticized from BOTH the political right and the left. From the right for bringing in the "class struggle" elements and the idea that the workers are being suppressed and used by an elite upper class and from the left for portraying the masses as incapable of thinking through their dilemma on their own and coming up with a solution. As being easily manipulated into following strong leaders who promise them freedom and heaven on earth. Both of these criticisms fall completely flat today..." The criticisms absolutely don't at all fall flat today. Post 2020, post pandemic, when we think about what the political right has come to represent, and what we think about representing the left, at least in the US, these criticisms were true then, and MORE true now. We just needed a major crisis which would show us how we'd respond as individuals, to determine who the slaves would be, and who would go willingly, like compliant worker bees. The political right were more apt to have viewed the lock downs though the lens of class struggle due to their wallets, through a loss of work, loss of religious freedom, etc. On the other side the political left could be seen as not questioning those same losses much at all, and were seen very much "being manipulated into following strong leaders who promise them freedom...(once after we all lock down, then once we all wear masks, then once we all are vaccinated)..and heaven on earth." I'm sorry, not only do these criticisms not fall flat, they could be viewed as outright prophesy of the now current future.
@germaniatv1870
Жыл бұрын
100 years ahead of its time.
@orlandofurioso7329
Жыл бұрын
YES! This is the real meaning of Metropolis, loss of humanity, which affects burned out workers and also rich people who live only in pleasure and hedonism.
@gibadias1637
Жыл бұрын
The visionary genius of Fritz Lang..! What we're seeing today, almost 100 years later? Human beings becoming slaves of technology and Artificial Inteligence... 🤔
@TheDancingRomeo
Жыл бұрын
Narrated by Captain Obvious lol Especially with the "light and dark" commentary lol
@tombombadill22
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful analysis
@tombombadill22
Жыл бұрын
Joh Fredersen was Henry Ford
@Brando_M
Жыл бұрын
Great work, hope you at some point can produce more great insights like this
@tomcullen3295
Жыл бұрын
Nothing changes
@Vmartin70EZ
Жыл бұрын
To ignore the direct references to the Prophetic Scriptures this commentary fails to understand what the message of the Movie is.
@no_peace
Жыл бұрын
people don't lose their humanity. they lose the privilege of being seen and treated as human
@Magnetron33
Жыл бұрын
Inspiration for the Universal Frankenstein 4 years later?
@EQOAnostalgia
Жыл бұрын
Typical to see people still don't understand this is NOT a warning but a confession of their plans and them reveling in their own filth but okay... stay blind or wake up, your call. But i gave plenty of you ample warning. Lord as my witness. The Gospel 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
@richardalan3204
Жыл бұрын
I don't want to hear your religious bull$hit.
@Christus-Veritas
2 жыл бұрын
*The Nazis never called themselves nationalists. They called themselves "National SOCIALISTS".....BIG difference. This is what comes of leftism infiltering media and academia. Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill....all called themselves Nationalists.*
@EQOAnostalgia
Жыл бұрын
Both are trash, look man... Satan and his little minions play BOTH SIDES. Don't play stupid games, you won't win stupid prizes.
@richardmattocks
2 жыл бұрын
Metropolis is a masterpiece. Nice deconstruction of some of Fritz Lang’s techniques.
@EQOAnostalgia
Жыл бұрын
More like a dungpile.
@onlyforwatchingvids2086
2 жыл бұрын
Fact: Did you noticed that scene between 0:40-0:56? You can see similer scene in Jibaro/❤☠️🤖
@aboriginalalex
2 жыл бұрын
This is an absolutely incredible analysis. Good job.
@ichaffee1
2 жыл бұрын
I saw this film about 20 yrs ago. now I hear that there is more footage found. I olan on see it. again, thank you for this very insightful analysis
@philosopher1a
2 жыл бұрын
This movie is prophetic
@EQOAnostalgia
Жыл бұрын
Satanic. . . prophets of God already spoke.
@rickmcdonald1557
2 жыл бұрын
It is Erie that the theme of Metropolis holds true today and we are, more than ever, Slaves to our Machines~!! Society is crumbling right before our eyes and yet we chose to look the other way and ignore where we are heading. I have watched this movie so many times and never tire of the message without hearing a single word spoken. Thanks for your review as it was very interesting and moving~!
@oahts5906
Жыл бұрын
Where do you watch it?
@rickmcdonald1557
Жыл бұрын
@@oahts5906 I have it on a DVD and Tape but if you Google it you will find many places to see it and a lot of scenes that are free also. ✌
@pippa1515
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great analysis! I am writing a paper on the "Dance Scene" at the moment. Her rising on the seven headed beast depicts her as "Whore of Babylon", which is a biblical allegory from the Apocalypse. The Monk is holding up the Bible, preaching about her coming. The Whore of Babylon is just a personification of Babylon, meaning the sinful, secular city in contrast to Jerusalem. The true Maria stands for the holy "Madonna" and personifies the holy city Jerusalem in contrast to this. Her being burned by the people is also part of the biblical story.
@thewickedwitchofse8998
2 жыл бұрын
Read Marx and you'll get it. Your analysis is way off.
@stolenhal0
2 жыл бұрын
If only we would ban communistic material from the masses today. It is embraced far more than it is condemned.
@thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw7010
2 жыл бұрын
Biplanes looked proper silly 🤷🏻♀️ It was a Dystopian socialism that obviously turned into a dictator/burgeosie.
@hassandoukkali3611
2 жыл бұрын
Notre seigneur et maitre le Dieu d'Abraham...
@hassandoukkali3611
2 жыл бұрын
le grave péché rechercher le secret de l'âme...
@hassandoukkali3611
2 жыл бұрын
les 7 péchés capitaux
@hassandoukkali3611
2 жыл бұрын
le vrai croyant désapprouve cela il n'en veut pas ...
@hassandoukkali3611
2 жыл бұрын
les abominations dans la coupe de la femme...
@hassandoukkali3611
2 жыл бұрын
le dragon nommée bête , la prostituée , la bête écarlate, la coupe emplie de choses mauvaises...l'apocalypse ...
@cheshirekat8273
2 жыл бұрын
There are so many relevant themes in that movie. It's insane. Like, the slaves holding up Maria's stage can represent the contrast between the workers and the machines... but they can also illustrate that the industrialized world was literally built on the back of black slaves. The movie also illustrates the "triumph" of the Patriarchal system, where women are nowhere to be found, in the movie, save for: - Hel, Freder's mother who died in childbirth, representing how hostile the capitalist, industrialized world is to motherhood, even the wealthy ones (mentionned, but not seen); - Maria, the only "real" woman of the movie, representing the average woman, who has no place in the industrialized world (showed by her neutral/grey clothing) and rebels against the system, trying to save the children (though none are her own); - The Eternal Garden's "prostitutes" who are somewhat safe from the workers' city, but who's only value is their physical beauty and ability to entertain the sons of the wealthy. They are always 1 step away from doom. This is illustrated in the garden scene, when horror covers the face of Freder's companion, as he instantly becomes enthralled with Maria and completely forgets his assigned companion; - And, last, but not least, "Fake Maria", a machine designed to imitate and replace human females for the pleasure of men as well as to control them, making the garden's prostitutes obsolete, leading to the death of Humanity.
@johns123
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic analysis! I'd love to see more of this from you, if you ever consider it
@delusivecharlie
2 жыл бұрын
It’s strange the film was banned by the Nazi’s, since Goebells told Lang that himself and Hitler were big fans of the movie: and that they decide who is Jewish, and who is not. They declared that Lang is not Jewish despite his ancestry.
@Solus3D
Жыл бұрын
The uprise of people against the goverment in the film was bad for Nazi Germany and worst for the rise of fascism and the neo-slavery in USA. One can make a version of Metropolis just about Walmart, Amazon or the rail workers.
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