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On the media lesson we have watched a movie called “ Metropolis” by Fritz Lang. An interesting thing is that the movie is sooooo old (1926-27), therefore it is a silent film where the dialogs and speech we can just read. It was my first experience to watch such movies and I didn’t really enjoyed it, not because it is an old picture but it made me depress. We have watched just two different location from the movie and what happened there. As the movie is in genre si-fi, there is a robot in the film and alternative future is shown.

The first scene actually made me depressed because the director showed an antiutopia life with unhappy factory workers, who are working in underground. The music and light played a huge role in the atmosphere there.  The atmosphere was shown also by background designs, different settings, expression of people, their actions, clothes.  The people looked almost like slaves and grey vegetables. Not just people look exactly same but their houses too (grey skyscrapers). 

The second location is utopia life, where people are happy, rich, enjoy their lives and being free. There is huge contras between these parallel locations. The atmosphere there also is shown through bright light, face expressions, clothes, music and body language of people. I think the main idea is to show people ideology of two classes (upper and working class). While rich laughing and playing, poor dying and working.

The main protagonist of the movie is Freder, we understand it by camera effects.He is shown big in the mise en scene and through all movie we are watching at him and what he is doing. So, he is a rich man, who doesn’t now about existing of poor and unhappy people, we understand it from his clothes, actions and speach. He even doesn’t care about other people until one day, while he played in his garden, one women came with many poor children and showed them the life of rich Freder. After that moment his life completely changed: he saw workers, other side of the life. The woman also shown in particular way: poor dress, many poor children around her, camera considered on her face (more attention on eyes, because it tell us about her soul) to express her as a good and kind but poor woman.