Review of Metropolis

Fritz Lang has made some amazing movies. This is his best silent film. The story takes place in a future city where the rich live in a marvelous paradise where technology and economy are better then ever. But the labor involved in this is deadly and shocking and it's where the worker's city comes in. When the son of the president, Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel), Freder Fredersen (Gustav Frohlich) falls for Maria (Brigitte Helm) a prophet of the worker's city, he goes down to the worker's city and is horrified by what he sees. Freder tells Joh who prohibits him from returning to the worker's city but Freder continues to visit Maria. Finally in an effort to prevent his son from going back, Joh orders reclusive scientist CA Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) to build a robot model of Maria, who in the form of Maria inspires to workers to rebel and riot around Metropolis. It all comes down to a clash between the rich and the poor. It's really unforgettable. Metropolis was very provocative for it's time, and the way it was made is just epochal. Metropolis is a monument of film history. An unbelievable epic.