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Metropolis, Fritz Lang (1927)
“El mediador entre el cerebro y las manos ha de ser el corazón" (Freder)
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The idea is ingenious in its sophistication, so that workers work at the maximum of their capabilities and cannot try to escape, their lives were turned into a symbiosis with machines by the cunning mind of the rulers. They cannot move away from the cars for a minute, otherwise it will turn into a disaster and the systems for ensuring normal life will fail. After several generations, the descendants of workers will very much get used to a different life, fighting for their lives every minute with common labor, from which there is no time and energy for thinking, for gaining extra muscle mass, for riots, for extra thoughts, there is only enough time for sleep, food and hygiene. However, such a system is difficult to control, even taking into account the fact that everyone will see all the sensors and there will be full automation. Due to the obsolescence and wear of various components of a giant factory, such a system took more and more lives and health over time, people are not machines, they tend to make mistakes, and living in constant stress and fear for their own and others' lives, without natural sunlight, without fresh air, normal leisure, a measured schedule and with constant physical exertion on the body, leading to rapid illnesses from hard work, leads to mental disorders and breakdowns, and mental disorder is by no means a superpower, it does not make you even more attentive or responsible, it makes life even more difficult, creates paranoia, irritability, apathy, inattention, forgetfulness, which further increases the risk of an accident. The film perfectly shows how an elderly man from exhaustion, overwork, lack of sleep and due to his incapacitated age, was powerless to avoid a catastrophe, he could not even call a replacement person or warn the others, apparently due to lack of staff. That is why this system was destroyed, due to its incorrect construction.