Culture shock

Unforgettable impression, I do not know what to compare with. It's like getting into a parallel world, on another planet. Culture shock. I laughed during the movie as I do not laugh at comedies, but not because everything was somehow particularly funny or stupid, but because it was incomprehensible to the mind.

It is necessary to try to understand. To begin with, this is not what modern people understand by the word "cinema". This is some other kind of art, with other means of representation, with a different approach. To some extent, Metropolis is a dead end of the evolution of cinema, a platypus against the background of cats, dogs and horses, a strange, absurd, but charming creature.

A monstrous grotesque in the game of actors. Hand wringing, bulging eyes, passionate looks and sensual embraces, depicting completely not love madness, but high revolutionary experiences. It fascinates, it causes both laughter and bewilderment. In this case, what kind of person! Tragically failed eyes, rich facial expressions: a mad scientist, a man with a hammer face as the head of the secret service, a caramel "Crown Prince", Maria and a false Maria, played by one actress. Aristocratically beautiful father of the protagonist a little apart, he is the only one who plays in a more familiar manner to us.

Wild naivete of what is happening. But they shot like a serious movie. Stunning material base and what later became known as special effects. German, which I understood the word-after-three. Elements of fiction in the face of a robot, something like eroticism, biblical allusions ... all this produces an astonishing effect.

I can not say that I liked it. It shocked me. The Germans annealed. Strangely enough, this word seems to me suitable here. Otozhgli in full.