I found this film interesting. I'm honestly still not sure whether I liked it or disliked it overall, but the plot line was at least a bright point for me. I think a great deal of that stems from the fact that I am a huge fan of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. This film came out approximately 5 years before Huxley's novel, and Huxley must have been inspired by Metropolis in many ways. Lang's "Thinkers" are Huxley's "Alphas". The workers in Metropolis are "the hands", whereas Huxley calls them "deltas" and "epsilons". The fact that they are both dystopian pieces from post-WWI Europe might have a great deal to do with the similarities, but they are much too abundant to not be related. Brave New World was a work that was not referenced in our post-movie discussion even though it is a culturally well known piece and an almost straight reproduction of Lang's work.
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