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Metropolis

My Observations

Conflicts: 

  • Rich vs. poor love dynamic
    • Freder from "club of sons" and "eternal garden"
    • Maria from the underground
      • ★Do you believe that opposites attract? 
      • ★Is there an ulterior desire to see how the other side lives?
      • ★Do you think these scenarios occur in the real world or is it a movie phenomenon?
    • Examples: Pretty Woman, Aladin, Cinderella, Maid in Manhattan
    • Movies in society today still use this dynamic
  • Good vs. evil
    • Maria represents the good/bringer of hope
    • John and the mad scientist represent the evil
      • Seeks to destroy Maria's built trust and hopefulness within the working population
      • Took Maria's beauty and exploited her for his own gain
        • Sheds light on men's view of women as objects- still present in our society
  • Manipulation 
    • They used the robot clone of Maria to incite rebellion to give him cause to put them down
      • I found similarities to our society with the distrust in information on social media
        • Today anyone can make anything up and put it online for it to become viral with little to no repercussions 
          • ★Did anyone notice any connections to the power of miscommunication from the film to our society today?
Setting:
  • Futuristic buildings, tall bridges, planes, traffic, trains
    • The film took inspiration from seeing the skyscrapers in New York in 1924
  • I feel that the underground represents the unseen social inequalities of society in a seemingly perfect, modern city
    • The creator must have little hope for the future of society if this was his futuristic vision
      • ★Do you think there are workers in our society who feel symbolic toward the underground workers?

Takeaways from the Class Discussion 

For future assignments and movies, I will pay closer attention to details on the set. So many of my peers made great observations of things such as a pentagram and related it to meaning in the film. I realized that there are so many layers to understanding a film, not just the plot and characters. 


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