I always love watching black and white film. Metropolis is another classics film that i had a chance to watch in History of Architecture class. The uniqueness of this film is not just it is a classics black and white film, but it is a silent film too. There is no dialogue in the movie but the action of the actors could tell all the story.
The film is set in a futuristic city Metropolis, where the society was divided into two classes: high class and low class. High class people usually be a thinker or manager who live higher above the ground, up in a luxurious skyscrapers but in opposite way, low class people like workers who work with machines live and work desperately underground. After a while, when the scene change from the underground factory to a luxurious city above ground where everything is magnificent, a girl appeared with kids and then the son of Metropolis's master followed her to the underworld. The fact that low people live and work underground, rich people above ground could not see the poor people. The man was surprised with what he saw. At this point I started to get some point from the story which is about the differences of level of people and society. I think the movie is trying to tell the differences between classes of people through the society, environment, and architecture. Higher level of people usually rich and live in a high rise luxurious building while the worker living underground. Comparing to our present society, the idea of classes of people still there, through people's living and society. High rises building or skyscrapers come up more in a present day to serve anyone that have enough money to buy a tiny room in a huge building. But where are the place for poor people? Is it underground like Metropolis's workers?
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