Metropolis 2:

Question 1

what do both texts convey?

Answer 1

societies that restrict freedom of its citizens through political, social and economic oppression

Question 2

whilst Lang’s film illustrates?

Answer 2

socialist aspects of Weimer Republic in creating a worker’s utopia

Question 3

what does Orwell’s portray?

Answer 3

portrays a dystopia in which civil rights are abolished, a reflection of Stalinism and Nazism

Question 4

how does Lang dehumanises the workers underground?

Answer 4

segregated from upper class through a series of high angle shots accompanied by accelerando non diegetic music

Question 5

how is loss of individuality and humanity of workers expressed?

Answer 5

Uniformity of worker’s choreography juxtaposed with the montage of machinery represent how workers themselves have been integrated into parts of the machine, losing their humanity and reflecting the hardships of Germany after World War One

Question 6

what results in confusion and violence?

Answer 6

Conflict between the exploited individual and controlling society

Question 7

Lang draws upon a resolution that is reflective of the ?

Answer 7

Dawes Plan in 1924

Question 8

what did Dawes PLan result in?

Answer 8

a subsequent political and social establishment in Weimer Germany

Question 9

how is resolution of Dawes PLan visually represented?

Answer 9

represented through mis-en-scene, in which Grot shakes Frederson’s hand through Freder, completing the extended metaphor that “the mediator between the heads and hands must be the heart”

Question 10

what does Lang draw importance of?

Answer 10

of socialist republic in which intellectual and working class compromise through social syncretism