Metropolis (1927)
10/10
Far ahead of its time n still rocks.
27 April 2021
I first saw this in the early 90s.

Revisited the 148 mins restored version recently.

The special effects, set designs, the futuristic cityscape with the skyscrapers, the aerial roads, the catacombs, the cathedral, Rotwang's house, the long stairs, the rooftops, the scary demonic statues, etc.

Man, this movie still amazes me and i am in awe of this movie.

Indeed it is the granddaddy n mother of all science fiction movies.

The chase n fight on the roof of the cathedral, i can just imagine the tension it must have created on audiences' minds 94 years back.

The hallucination scene where the machine is the temple of Moloch and the workers are being fed to it, creepy enuff.

The false Maria as the whore of Babylon, riding on the back of a many-headed dragon is wonderfully done.
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