Metropolis: The ultimate by Fritz Lang
The ultimate in film, peer into the world of Metropolis -as it is with content, a universal message; forever carrying poetic into the age of technology. It is the best, especially in light of its prophetic nature.
Metropolis and Narcissus seeing beyond himself
The ultimate in film, peer into the world of Metropolis -as it is with content, a universal message; forever carrying poetic into the age of technology. It is the best, especially in light of its prophetic nature. I am fascinated esp., considering its production, use of limited tools; and considering that the film was released in the late 1920s. Expect to be blown away, with what it is, in essence.However this production is cherished, as a combination, put together by artistic genius, its an expression that transcends the limits of technics and time -underlining an essential point: effective use of primitive tools, based on essential truth, blows aside facades -esp., the masked, the overly coloured superficiality of kitsch and false art and so forth (characteristic features of so many modern art forms).
Here we have the truly genuine i.e., searching for an essence, the needed expressed forms of life, discovering itself, in finding the mediator (industrial life angst).
Metropolis is a reflection in the pool of Narcissus: though in this piece man transcends himself -finds expression, peers upon some essential truth, throughout the reel, the moving stream: onwards towards -life that is all colour, in as much as Metropolis, is all colour wanting to explode from the limits of its own greyness.
Though here, the spectator is lost, within an underlying colour in monochromaticity- in the whirling depths of its message. In essence, at the base, or crux -we observe this artistic piece from two ends. Within the depths, ever busy industrial dwarfs; above, the rainbow.
In Metropolis you ought to find your pot of gold. The work's value is not a painted depiction of an eternal working fairy. It is the miraculous transformation of an idea into living form. It is the Creative Force, lying in things, the worker -the coordination, the movement of head and hand.
Nostalgia: Tarkovsky
A film that looks at backward looking aspects in the urge to discover some hidden essence in the imagination.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Probably one of the masterpieces of film: here the Russian poet and translator go to Italy (a sort of spiritual homeland); they want to study the life of the composer of the eighteenth century. i.e., among the dereliction old rusty forms -they look, trying to find some essence.The film explores something in the past, looks or provides a mirror into that missing essence that so many of us try to find in so many different ways.
SALUTE: We congratulate the Spirit of Tarkovsky.
Its mental and visual, verbally profound and spatial framed in tones of sepia charming, in addition to a good detailed underlying tones. An excellent work.