This is one of a very few silent films I can bear to watch. It's not a pleasant experience. It can be described as a sci-fi horror film. Lang and von Harbou present the advent of industrial civilization and the concurrent rise of scientific slavery with its severely enforced class system. It is uncannily prescient. They only missed that Luciferianism and the normalization of depravity follows closely behind the rise of oligarchy. My bold below: Quote from Wikipedia Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks or the equivalent of about €21 million. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master. The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart". The player at this sight lacks controls and has an annoying added on soundtrack which you can mute. If anyone finds a better site please post the link. https://watch.plex.tv/movie/metropolis
Do remember the film Metropolis . Reminds me a bit of this film made in 1913. Watch A Message from Mars online - BFI Player
I couldn't get it to play, probably because of my security programs. I'll save the link and try again when I have the patience to disable each in turn. It looks interesting.
You might need a VPN.....I use one to look at some links to American sites that ban watching in the UK.