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Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: An Analysis
A gleaming android stares mechanically at the viewer, its round, lidless eyes glowing with the light of some unexplained inner mechanism. A subterranean city peopled by the poor, ruled by a totalitarian state above. A wild-haired scientist bedecked in a white lab coat works feverishly at the controls of some mysterious apparatus…