>>5617186It has been a while since I watched it, I remember Metropolis being very religious / allegorical a bit communist lol the defining image for me was not the famous robot woman one or even the architectural marvels of that skyscraper tower but the workers being monotonously devoured by the cog machine factory gate thing, that was sort of some industrial Hieronymous Bosch triptych-styled imagery.
It does not seem really that subtle nowadays because it has been endlessly imitated, in fact thinking of Perturbator cyberwomen themes and the Ariel Zucker-Brull pentagram art, Carpenter Brut machine / synthwave type videos the Fritz Lang robot pentagram lady is like the Art Deco de-make of those hehe. The work which I think of is obviously Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Modern Prometheus 1818, they are all disguised / transposed Rousseau noble savage variants (monster / robot as what does it mean to birth/create a "New Man" ? Human Nature as goodness vs the Fall of Man etc) what moral values arise in a society distanced from Nature due to corruption of civilisation, indignity of industry / machine labour etc.
Probably all of this will become relevant again in the age of stochastic tokens anthropomorphised text inference as human impersonation/mimicry, ChatGPT algorithmic idolatry
