Metropolis 1:

Question 1

what sets the doctrine of film?

Answer 1

Values of Weimer Republic

Question 2

what do visual forms reveal?

Answer 2

the ironic mastery of machine and industrialisation over man

Question 3

what is used to emphasise the political and social chaos in his society

Answer 3

Uses montage of machine cross cut with symbol of a mechanical clock ticking to midnight

Question 4

what do additional cuts of steam vents signifiy?

Answer 4

underlying pressures that plagued the Weimer Republic in the interwar period, but also ideological tensions that characterized the period

Question 5

what leads to revolution?

Answer 5

tensions

Question 6

what is the workers revolution a reflection of?

Answer 6

the attitudes within Germany as it struggled to repay its debts to foreign nations, under TOV

Question 7

how is necessity of industrialisation represented?

Answer 7

by verbally ironic appeal of the foreman, “If the heart machine perishes…the entire worker’s city will be laid to waste.”.

Question 8

what does Lang convey?

Answer 8

convey although life miserable at Metropolis, it is dependent on the co-existence of workers and the “heart-machine”.

Question 9

what is the machine a source of?

Answer 9

the source of the worker subordination and repression, but the source of their livelihood as well

Question 10

Hence, Lang examine his era in which solution for their debt is to sacrifice ?

Answer 10

sacrifice the freedom of the individual for rapid industrialisation