The plot of Fritz Lang’s enigmatic 1927 silent film Metropolis revolves around a group of powerful elites determined to maintain their hold over the masses. To do so, they set out to invent artificial crises with the intention to set the everyday folk against each other and thus distract them from the real crisis of the elite’s inordinate and corrupt power. In an attempt to mask their efforts, they craftily pluck a girl from among the masses—one of “their own kind”—to do their dirty work of fomenting this false antagonism and drag her people into chaos and disorder.
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