Mertropolis

Mertropolis Fritz Lang’s: Metropolis Critical Response By. Josh Boock This Fritz Lang classic silent film of the futuristic city of metropolis and its mechanized society is possible more powerful to day then when it was released, at depicting the dehumanization of centralized urban cites. Set in the year 2000, there are two distinctive class divisions in the megalopolis of metropolis: the toiling labor force dwelling underneath the conurbation in slums toiling away in a vain effort to keep the machine going, working ten hour days every day but never getting ahead. While the upper class surface dwellers reside in luxurious comfort, with out a care in the world. Presiding over this convoluted complex of complexity is the domain of Fredersen, the commodore of Metropolis. Freder his son lives a very sheltered life-until he meets the daughter of one of the slaves, Maria. When Maria leads him into the grueling underground city, and shows him the masses of people who keep the luxury of metropolis running, he joins them in a revolt against his father. The relevancy of this film to this class is profoundly when you consider the planned obsolescence of material goods by designers, like Raymond Lowey and his "cold spot" metropolis, people, class, very, society, one, man, fritz, film, designers, city, while, upper, toiling, shows, refrigerator, over, masses, maria, luxury, live, keep, father, every, divisions, day, away, year, world, working, worker, work, whole, wealth, waste, wagon