METROPOLIS
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film, and was made to express the social crisis that existed then between the workers and the owners. Metropolis has been since then the most costly silent movie to be made but yet the most famous and well-known. I personally have mixed feelings about this film and the fact that it is a silent one. I realized that a silent film requires much more effort to watch than talking movies. The information is not spoon fed to the audience; it requires extent concentration primarily in the sense of what the movie is all about. Even till the end of the movie, I still hadn’t figured out what was really going on. Most of the scenes seemed very complex and vague.
Yet, on the other hand, I appreciated the silence that existed in the film. I realized that silence can be an extremely loud source to deliver a message. Silence gives a tremendously dramatic effect and leaves the audience to decide what they want to feel. It is deeper this way and makes us feel the movie’s weight, its strength, its tension. In the film, silence does not make the movie more quite, but does the complete opposite of giving it life. It does so by giving all our focus and all the energy to the actor’s actions and facial expressions. For example, it is easy for us to hear the sound of someone crying, but how much deeper will it become if we could see the expression of sadness and pain on that person’s face.
All in all, I don't think I am a big fan of silent movies, yet I believe it is important to experience watching at least one in your life in order to appreciate this different expressional artistic type of movie
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