Thank you Lumières!

It was the first futuristic film in the world cinema and in it absolutely everything that is shown to us in modern cinema as something innovative. In the film we are talking about the city of the future and in it you can meet an amazing number of coincidences. For example: a phone with a video call, a street of skyscrapers and advertising as two drops of water similar to the modern Wall Street, urban monorails, robot people. And this is the 27th year! Incredible greetings from the past! Lang almost guessed everything!

In general, after viewing it becomes clear that the ideas of modern cinema have not moved anywhere. How everything began in 1927 with a simple, ideological skeleton that there is a protagonist, he fights against evil, he has a pair of helpers, a beloved woman and needs to save the world ... And that's all since the 27th year. Nothing changed. There are all Spielbergs, Bessonov and other "geniuses" of fiction, catastrophes and fighters of the 21st century. But only "Metropolis" is not just a brightly shot, science-fiction film, it's also a whole philosophy, sometimes malicious, sharp. That only there is one phrase of subtitles: "We go to look as the world rolls to hell!", Spoken, by the way absolutely absolutely debutante of a cinema at that time-Brigitte Helm. She is great! Impossible is realistic, multifaceted, plastic and incredibly beautiful: porcelain, cast, with amazing, cosmic eyes. There are no such actresses right now.

I like everything in this film: sometimes touching naivety, subtle allegories, rhythm, understatement for the viewer to think, the beauty of every thought, scenery, mythology. This is an amazing movie! Here for such basically and it would be desirable to tell many thanks to Lumières.

10 of 10