Metropolis

According to a silent movie, Metropolis was a great movie although it was a little bit long especially because I didn’t watch a silent movie before. The movie has a great story ruined by a poor narrative but according to the time of production it wasn’t really bad. It was talking about class conflict and criticizing men in relation to industry and machines. I found a lot of strengths in this black and white movie like the music effect, actor’s expressions. In 1926 technology wasn’t that developed machines and computers weren't even created. All special effects were done by hand drawing and using stop motion, which take a lot of efforts and time. And when I took in consideration these old techniques I appreciated even more this movie.

Other impressing things are the huge constructions, bridges, detonations, transition between sequences and robots realized in the film.

It was a great futuristic and sci-fi movie for its time. The body language was wonderful. The way that the employees were represented as insensible machines and how they are just working without even thinking what they are doing, was one of the most effective components of this film, I really enjoyed watching these scenes.

Overall, this movie and the concepts of how the coming days might be like and how it was represented were very impressive. 

Soldier's home by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most famous authors of America. Hemingway began his profession as a newspaper writer and Red Cross helper in World War I. The participation in this job twisted his existence in life.

War left an unforgettable memory on Hemingway's disposition that kept on disturbing him during his life.

After World War I, Hemingway’s life turned upside down. That was clearly shown in his “Soldier’s Home” novel. Soldier’s home is a semi-autobiographical story. It talks about Krebs that newly arrived at home who battled in World War I and is trying to rest from the mysterious upsets produced by the battle. At first he tried to invent stories to attract people’s attention but then he got bored and decided to stop lying because it caused him a reaction against war.

The story focuses on Harold’s life before going to the war, showing us a picture with his fraternity brothers at a Methodist college in Kansas. And presenting how he was conformist before the war and when he came back he was different he had a very conventional background; he wanted to defend his country.

Because of his emotional trauma he tried to avoid people and he spent most of his time alone reading and studying not knowing what to do after. Which is Hemingway’s case too, when he came back from the war and wasn’t sure about his future until he decided to go and work in Kansas City as a journalist exactly like Krebs.

And Krebs’s decision to go and watch his sister’s baseball game in the ending demonstrates Krebs life’s recapture as well as the author in his actual life.