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.