Today’s History of Architecture’s class takes us to a movie that has brief connections with the lesson we learned previously, “From Bauhaus to our House” and the film is called “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang. It is a silent film done right, so a lot of the the meaning must be interpreted visually. The film explores the relationship and an oxymoron against human and machines. Since this is a history of architecture class, the analysis of this film will be approached through an architectural perspective. Throughout my analysis I will try to look to different scenes and attempt to analyze the space in the film through my understanding of the architectural history.

The film strongly interpret urbanity. Metropolis starts off with images of structures operating mechanically and suddenly my mind goes to “the industrial age”. There are clear juxtaposition going on in the film between the workers and thinkers or in metaphoric term, humans and machines. Without the heart and understanding, the thinkers and workers would not unite as a whole unit. The film contrasts the two group by showing the workers are working deep under the ground while the thinkers all live in skyscrapers. The workers all dressed the same, work through an endless hours, removed all the identity of humans, they are almost... like a robot.

In conclusion to the movie, Rotwang decided to expresses robots to be human-like and how the human workers are controlled like machines. The movie shows the ugly truth of the human traits and how we sometimes get lost through all the technological fuzz around us.