Democratic Socialism And Metropolis

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Metropolis In The movie of Metropolis we can clearly see some ideologies.Most important one is democratic socialism.Ideologies are represented by characters. The theme of a distinction between working class and capitals and the need for understanding of each is presented directly through the image rather than the word. We see that there is huge distinction between working class and upper class. Mr. Fredersen, he is the boss of the factory and exploits the labor. There are high buildings and extraordinary machines on the metropolis which are created by working class. The important thing is to maintain this system and just profit for the capitalists so they do not care with the bad conditions of working and exploitations of labor.While the working working class always is working and working, upper class is entertaining.There is no connections between them. We can see this disconnection in the most part of the movie. For example; Mr.Fredersen never knows who is working for him and when he wants to talk to her boy or labor,he always closes the all doors. Morever, Maria tells a story about the Tower of Babel and says‘But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it’.This also shows the disconnections between two classes. Freder, the son of Mr. Fredersen, falls in love with Maria when he saw her and started to question what is the contradiction between the classes. Democratic socialist idelogy especialy represented by Maria and Freder.According to her the labors are sisters and brothers and they need to cooperate. In other words, she supported the idea of cooperation,solidarity and fraternity. She tried to create conciousness among them. On the other hand; after they learn the plan of the labors, mr. Fredersen takes help from mad scientist
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