{"id":1260,"date":"2019-02-24T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunbarfilm.org.uk\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2024-10-03T13:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:54:50","slug":"metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/2019\/02\/metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O<\/span><\/span>ne of the biggest, strangest, maddest films in cinema history.<\/p>\n

Fritz Lang’s 1927 film is a crazed futurist epic, a mythic sprawl with something of Jung and Wagner, and dystopian nightmare about a city-state built on slave labour, whose prosperity depends on suppressing a mutinous underground race whose insurrectionist rage is beginning to bubble.<\/p>\n

Metropolis predicts the ideologies of class and race of the 20th century, and there is a perennial frisson in the way the workers’ leader Maria longs for a messianic figure who can find a middle way between the head and the heart, the bosses and the workers: he will be the Mediator, or the “Mittler” \u2013 a word that has a chilling echo with another real-life leader who at the time of Metropolis’s premiere had a few seats in the Reichstag.<\/p>\n

The “Maschinenmensch” robot based on Maria is a brilliant eroticisation and fetishisation of modern technology and the current crisis in Dubai, whose economic boom was founded on a colossal import of globalised labour, makes Metropolis seem very contemporary. – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest, strangest, maddest films in cinema history. Fritz Lang’s 1927 film is a crazed futurist epic, a mythic sprawl with something of Jung and Wagner, and dystopian nightmare about a city-state built on slave labour, whose prosperity depends on suppressing a mutinous underground race whose insurrectionist rage is beginning to bubble. Metropolis…Continue reading<\/span>Metropolis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-films","category-science-fiction","category-silent-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbarfilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}