"The mediator between head and hands must be the heart"

Being the first science fiction epic and the most expensive film of the time, Metropolis (1927- Fritz Lang) is a spectacular film. The expressionist style of the sets (futuristic cityscapes and machines), story and characters (futuristic robot, crazy scientist and huge masses of clone like people) convey a strange atmosphere to the film. Metropolis has influenced many futuristic films such as Bladerunner (Ridley Scott,1982). The story touches on the fight between classes, man and machine, and politics. Being a silent movie Metroplois can be quite slow for impatient audiences of our time however looking past that it is a very artistic film mainly due to it's outstanding expressionist techniques.