Thinking About Thinking Machines: Metropolis
Past Present Future
Exploring Human Exploitation and Mechanization in Film
This chapter explores the film's themes of dehumanization in industrial society, focusing on how human workers are reduced to cogs within mechanized systems. It also examines calls for revolution against oppressive machines and analyzes the visual symbolism that critiques the impact of mechanization on human bodies and spirits.
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