Metropolis
September 14, 2024
Fritz Lang’s magnificent Metropolis, along with H. G. Wells’ Things To Come, his brilliantly executed SciFi epic against war and capitalism proposing a technocratic fascist state of elite engineers (notice the telling reference to “the freemasonry of science” by Raymond Massey’s character, John Cabel), set the gold standard for cinematic science fiction for decades.
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