The image of a decimal clock and of a giant lighted clock with a man frantically trying to turn the hands help set the otherworldly feel of this film.
The image of a decimal clock and of a giant lighted clock with a man frantically trying to turn the hands help set the otherworldly feel of this film. A reading of the story of the Tower of Babel provides a parable to the setting, where wealthy citizens live idyllic lives in a land of giant skyscrapers while workers live underground like drones and power their machines. A socialist message underlies the main plot, a love story between the aristocrat Freder and the worker Maria, who continually exclaims that "between the head and the hands there must be a heart." FTP, name this Fritz Lang film about the titular large, futuristic city.
The image of a decimal clock and of a giant lighted clock with a man frantically trying to turn the hands help set the otherworldly feel of this film.
{Metropolis}