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Metropolis After buying a ticket, you sit down with your popcorn and coke to watch Metropolis. The Humans in the film are divided into two groups, the thinkers(who live on the surface), who make all the plans but don't know how anything works and the workers(who live below them), who achieve all their goals but don't have the vision. The city is sustained by a large amount of workers who labor as virtual slaves in the machine halls. The work for 10 hours a day. The hero, Freder is oblivious to the amount of workers until he sees Mary, when she's visiting the Eternal Gardens. He then follows her to the workers city and discover the horrible conditions in which the workers work, you discover how sad and hungry the workers are.
 * media type="youtube" key="bTWgWy6zyaA?fs=1" height="385" width="480" || You quickly discover that this film is a silent, science fiction film, set in the future.

Freder goes below to where all of the workers are and takes over one of their jobs in order to find Maria. Freder's father, Joh Fredersen(master of the city) was once married, to a woman called Hel, who died while giving birth to his son, Freder. You then see that Joh has found plans shared by the workers. He then talks about them to an old collaborator and scientist, Rotwang. Once they have talked about these plans, you discover that Rotwang once was in love with Hel and when she died he made a robot that he modeled to the image of Hel. They then go to see what the Maria was doing. || == Rotwang and Freder see Maria preaching the gospel and counseling patience for the arrival of the "Mediator" a person which will bring peace between the workers and the thinkers. Frederson wasn't impressed by this, he wants to break the workers resistance and destroy Maria's influence. Frederson and Rotwang plan to make his robot Hel into a duplicate of Maria, which mean that they have to kidnap her. They will then send the robot out and among the workers to incite them to violence, then Fredersen can use force against them. Maria is then kidnapped and then they unleash the robot, the false Maria leads to chaos and violence amongst the workers who start invading the thinkers city. Meanwhile the real Maria, manages to escape and finds that the children had been left behind in the workers city, which is flooding. Maria manages to rescue as many children as she can, and when the workers get back, they are very angry and burn the robot, due to its source of evilness. Rotwang then sees the real Maria and confuses her with Hel, she chases her to the top of the cathedral where Freder and him have a fight, which ends with Rotwang falling to his death. The film ends with a truce between the workers and the thinkers.

When the film ends, and you start chatting with the bloke next to you. He seems to know a lot about the film and tells you that this was the most expensive silent film ever made, it cost nearly 5 million Riechmark. It also used one of the most extras ever with
 * 26,000 male extras
 * 11,000 female extras
 * 750 child extras.

You then realise that the man who is telling so much about the film is Fritz Lang. he then invites you to the backstage party.

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