Metropolis - Film Review

I believe the film Metropolis is certainly related with the Christian religion since there are enough scenes in Metropolis to parallel the Bible. The most obvious ones are those involving Freder and Maria which coupled with the story of Adam and Eve, beginning with the fall of man. A young man named Freder, who is the son of Joh Frederson, the ruler of the gigantic city of Mertopolis, first appears in the Miracle of Eternal Gardens. He chases girls around a beautiful fountain that his father prepared for him and seems to be very happy, as Adam was in Eden. It is not long though until Freder finds a girl named Maria who is the beautiful reformer evokes the image of the Virgin Mary appears surrounded by children and gains the knowledge of the underground which causes him to "fall" from his perfect, naive, and blissful state. Freder was down to a more knowledgeable and sympathetic state in the industrial lever of the city. He looked up at dozens of workers who toil away at a giant machine and sacrifice themselves for the people who live above them, Joh Frederson (Head) who is the Mater of metropolis and demands total controls. The workers complete all the labor with no benefit and they are subjugated to slave roles in the running of the city and live far underground, even below the factories in which they work. Freder was unaware that the people were forced to live in such harsh conditions though tasks for ten hour shift. The upper world, the Eternal Gardens, is depicted as a utopian society where the positive progress of humanity like no one works, much like the idea of heaven, but this society depends on the workers of the underground to keep their city going, no considering their family, their home and their lives. This possesses the underground is comparable to the idea of hell as a dystopian society.