EXPRESSIONISM:

Expressionism - The use of images to express psychological realities rather than material realities.

Metropolis:

• Religious symbols
• Class/Marxism
• New technologies - ahead of its time?
• Rotwang's invention - The Robot
• Love
• A vision of the future

• Silent science film directed by Fritz Lang
• Produced in Germany
• Released in 1927 during a stable period of Weimar Republic
• Most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Marks to make