Fritz lang said as much himself. See theoriginal reception section: "The main thesis was Mrs. Von Harbou's, but I am at least 50 percent responsible because I

Fritz lang said as much himself. See theoriginal reception section: "The main thesis was Mrs. Von Harbou's, but I am at least 50 percent responsible because I did it. I was not so politically minded in those days as I am now. You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale—definitely. But I was very interested in machines. Anyway, I didn't like the picture—thought it was silly and stupid—then, when I saw the astronauts: what else are they but part of a machine? It's very hard to talk about pictures—should I say now that I like Metropolis because something I have seen in my imagination comes true, when I detested it after it was finished?" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)