Metropolis - the city of the future

Metropolis of Fritz Lang is an indisputable masterpiece of world cinema, a cult ribbon that has become a symbol. But I like many want to forget about the cult and the symbol for a while, looking at what remains in the dry residue. Here and now, without reference to the great name and recognition. How relevant is this work now and is it outdated morally and technically? Yes, to argue with the fact that the technical means of that time were very limited, there is no sense - cardboard decorations, lack of sound, a slightly different manner of acting than now and much much more. But despite this all Metropolis even 80 years later looks fresh and relevant. And my answer to the question posed above is absolutely obvious - all the same this masterpiece will be relevant all the time that there will be a movie. Why? Because he was at the origins of that very movie. Of course, cinema as an art form was by that time not to say that it was new, many famous stars were already working there and famous, but while Charlie Chaplin, Bester Keaton and others exploited the circus genre of the last century, Fritz Lang made films that laid the foundation the same movie that we are all looking at now, and Metropolis is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding of his works.

In this film there is nothing "momentary", inspired by fashion, but there is a comprehension of what was happening in those years in the world - a wave of revolutions swept through Europe, industrialization, a surge of class hatred. In fact, Fritz Lang was one of those who linked cinema with literature, turning the entertainment genre into real art, which we can now enjoy all. On the other hand, in this film there is nothing faked, despite the cardboard decorations, for a moment there is no feeling of ersatz, substitution, masquerade. So, together with Lang, cinema appeared not only actual and literary, but also epic - no longer a circus, but a theater. So the influence of creativity of the great director and specifically of Metropolis is very difficult to overestimate ... and not only of Metropolis, the same "M: the city is looking for a murderer" - one of the very first films of a detective genre, and "Woman on the Moon" is one of the first in which is shown space travel, but this is of course a completely different story.