Between the head and hands should be an intermediary.

Frankly, this is the first silent film that I looked at all and did not lose. After watching, my interest in silent cinema has increased very much, and as the latest Oscar film award shows, not only for me.

So, Metropolis - the film was shot in 1926, in Germany, the director of the tape Fritz Lang (which before the show I did not say anything). The film tells about the life of a fantastic city - Metropolis, which combines two worlds - the world of workers, which is located on the underground floors, and the world of brothers - the highest caste, aristocracy, which thrives on the surface. the workers, as it should be, work exhaustively, serving a huge number of machines that ensure the worthy life of the higher caste. But this can not go on forever ...

Metropolis is a film about social inequality, about love and religion. It is noteworthy that in the film, inequality is not denied in the absolute sense, rather it is said to what extent it can not reach. "There should be a mediator between the head and the hands - the heart," - no one says that everyone should be hands or should all be a head, the main thing is that the linking link was love and faith.

So, as this dumb, and even black and white cinema, you might think that there will not be enough bright scenes and dynamics ... an erroneous judgment. The dynamics in the film is more than enough, the controversial soundtrack to the film (someone like it, someone calls it disgusting, I liked :)) the actors' game is simply amazing, at first glance it is very difficult to perceive these hypertrophied emotions in the frame and jerky feigned moves, but on the other hand, how else to convey everything without words ... and besides, after 20-30 minutes of viewing, you do not pay attention to it, you remain completely engaged in the game. especially I want to mention the performer of the main female role Brigitte Helm. It is very difficult to play the role, where you need to realize the two extremes of the same thing, she managed it ...

An interesting fact about the budget of the film, the spent amount of $ 1.5 million at that time was a fortune and certainly could not return after the rental, although the film was frenzied.

Metropolis called his favorite film Adolf Hitler, well, in the movie, he clearly had a good taste.

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