Metropolis story
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang.
16 total · 12 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| android | major | Rotwang invented a robot in the likeness of his departed love Hel. |
| communism | major | The android Maria incited the workers to rise up against ruling class and destroy the machines. |
| father and son | major | City master Joh Fredersen and his son Freder Fredersen. |
| labor revolt | major | The android Maria incited the workers to rise up against ruling class and destroy the machines. |
| mass surveillance | major | The master of the city, Fredersen, kept close surveillance on the city's workers. |
| revolution in society | major | The android Maria incited the workers to rise up against ruling class and destroy the machines. |
| romantic love | major | Freder Fredersen and Maria. |
| social change due to new technology | major | Inequality between working and industrialist classes resulting from mechanization of production was explored. |
| social oppression | major | The Metropolis inhabitants oppressed the working underclass. |
| utopia on the back of slave labor | major | The Metropolis inhabitants lived in luxury produced on the backs of workers who toiled in subterranean city. |