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It's basically a turd as a story; a lame piece of socialist moralizing with lots of cheap stereotypes. I assume it got made at all because the author was marrie
by scottlocklin 8y ago
It's basically a turd as a story; a lame piece of socialist moralizing with lots of cheap stereotypes. I assume it got made at all because the author was married to Fritz Lang, though she certainly wrote better screenplays before and after this one. It was the design elements of the movie and "special effects" which made it worth remembering.
- codeulike 8y agoIts not even socialist. At the end, employer and employee are united by Love. I have no idea where to pin that on the political spectrum.
- coldtea 8y agoSocial democracy -- that is, almost every government in the west today.
- nmg 8y agoAgreed. I've only seen it once but I recall feeling "what's the big deal" at the end. However the interview made me re-think this a bit. That the interviewer mistook the number of extras by a large margin speaks to the cinematic "tricks" (as cited pejoratively in parent post) being successful even thirty years later. I imagine this was an eye-opening moment for moviegoers the same way Citizen Kane was - like nothing seen before, so deeply impactful.