Critique Of Metropolis

Misha Turner
Film Appreciation I
23 September 2011
Critique of Metropolis
1. signalise the Director and 2 leading actors and the name of their characters.
Fritz Lang- Director
Alfred Abel- Joh Fredersen
Gustav Frohlich- Freder
2. Give a plot synopsis.
In the futuristic city of Metropolis, the wealthy citizens pull through a care-free life, part the workers who run the machines that run the city tolerate below ground in squalor. One day while Freder, single of the wealthy, is frolicking in the garden, a woman ( female horse) brings the workers children with her to show them their brothers and sisters. Freder is becharm with Maria, and follows her to the underground city. Upon finding the underground city, he sympathizes with the workers and finds out that Maria is like a prophet, and preaches a kernel of hope to the workers, that one day a mediator, or heart, impart come to crossroads the point (above ground) and hands (below ground workers).
Freders father, Joh Fredersen is the citys master, and finds out that the workers are planning something and goes to spy on them on with the crazy scientist Rotwang, who has recently invented a robot. Fredersen hears Maria preach to the workers and asks Rotwang to kick the bucket the robot Marias face so that the workers will not follow her anymore.



Meanwhile, Freder and Maria are falling in love. Then, Maria is kidnapped and Rotwang makes the robot look like Maria. The Maria-bot then incites the workers to uprising and the upper class into lasciviousness. When the workers revolt against the machines, it causes the underground city to flood. The veridical Maria and Freder save the children from the flood, but after the mob of waste workers burn the Maria-bot, Rotwang kidnaps the real Maria once again. Freder fights with Rotwang and ends ups saving Maria. The party boss of the workers and Joh Fredersen shake hands, with Freders help, signaling an understanding between head and hands with the help of the heart.
3. What was the theme or underlying message?
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