Metropolis
So I’m finally at the last movie I have to review. What a sad thing to see that I have only watched four movies in two months. The biggest problem is to decide what to watch next, heh.
In that sense, watching Metropolis wasn’t exactly a production of my active decision, because it was shown at the Maison Heinrich Heine with live piano. Of course I couldn’t miss it, even though it cost 5 euro. Every single cent was definitely worth it though, the live piano was simply spectacular. I think nobody in the audience expected the accompanying piano piece to be so energetic, intense and forceful, it must have been a horrible physical effort to play like that. I was so impressed.
Compared to that, I wasn’t all too impressed by the movie itself. The style and atmosphere are gorgeous of course, same for cinematography and direction, but the overly simple story was a little bit of a push-off. From a science-fiction story like this, I have rather high expectations for the story and would always have the likes of 1984 and Brave New World in mind, and there was no way this one-dimensional story could have done justice to it. Of course, Metropolis is far from being a bad movie, I just wished for a better story.
All in all, especially with the live piano, it was an amazing experience.