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Originally Posted by john70t
Can't see avatars but I've got gulag javascript blocked.
My city website requires it to function, but it is supposed to be a government for the people and not a private data-mining operation.
Mine is from the very old movie Metropolis with Val burning at the stake.
(spoiler alert ahead)
IIRC The golem 'machine-man' ('robot' wasn't yet an english word) is created by the incel best friend of the oligarch who runs Machine Town.
It is a place where workers labor endlessly in repetition as undead drones to keep the city running.
Val takes on human form and was supposed to replace his lost wife who they were both in love with. She also resembles Maria the new leftist girlfriend of the oligarch's playboy son.
(Yeah. It gets a little weird there)
Val the upstart robot organizes the workers into revolution and the city floods.
Val is caught, Maria is freed, and order is restored.
The question of how to run Machine Town remains unanswered...
Metropolis was a groundbreaking movie in terms of technical achievement. As expensive as Cleopatra was for it's time.
Historians somehow restored it from fragments all over the world.
It's written to leave questions.
The director's theme is 'the connection between the head and hands is the heart'.
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I've never seen
Metropolis (1927), but the imagery from it is timeless and astonishing.
