Film · 1927 · Science fiction
Metropolis
Directed by Fritz Lang
1927
★ 8.8 editorial score
Science fiction has been raiding its designs for a century: Lang built a vertical city and a metal woman in 1927, and both are still turning up in new films.
“Set in a machine-run city of the future where captains of industry live in towers and exploited workers dwell underground, "Metropolis"...was a film of huge ambition that took on such big themes as the nature of capital and labor and the ease of mass manipulation, and filtered them through a personal story of a young couple in love.”
Time
1927Depicts The future
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