The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang tells the story of a futuristic city, a city that might as well be called paradise. Yet this paradise has a secret, a secret going into the depths of the city where hell is overflowing, where workers operate the giant machines that run the world above. A careless leader, Joh Fredersen, controls the city. As he works in his office in a big building towering above the city, his spoilt son, Freder, lives like royalty in the Eternal Gardens where everything goes the way he wants it to. While Freder runs around enjoying himself, he is interrupted when the beautiful lady by the name of Maria With is “brothers”. Freder goes to the city of the workers to find Maria but sees the misery the worker live in and untied
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Joh Frederson has no time for his son and set him to the eternal gardens where he does not feel any love from his father and is brought happiness with money and freedom. It showed some examples of Karl Marx the communist manifesto, this book is an explanation of how “modern” families treat their kids. He states “Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.” (Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto) By this he is meaning that modern life is mostly focused about property and what you have and society has made this worse. The thinking of these adults, mostly men, is that the more time you spend with your children the more money is not earned so they don’t spend time with their children but to maintain the social status that they have they don’t want to seem like they ignore their children so they shower them with money and presents. Joh also ignored what Freder said, “It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme?” supporting the workers. After all of this Joh was still worried when he couldn’t find his son and when Freder was fighting Rotwang showing the least
Joh Frederson has no time for his son and set him to the eternal gardens where he does not feel any love from his father and is brought happiness with money and freedom. It showed some examples of Karl Marx the communist manifesto, this book is an explanation of how “modern” families treat their kids. He states “Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.” (Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto) By this he is meaning that modern life is mostly focused about property and what you have and society has made this worse. The thinking of these adults, mostly men, is that the more time you spend with your children the more money is not earned so they don’t spend time with their children but to maintain the social status that they have they don’t want to seem like they ignore their children so they shower them with money and presents. Joh also ignored what Freder said, “It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme?” supporting the workers. After all of this Joh was still worried when he couldn’t find his son and when Freder was fighting Rotwang showing the least