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Freder wanders down into the workers' city yet again, where he is met with a thick smoke upon entering. He approaches and addresses one of the workers as "Brother." When the worker falls down, Freder holds him as the worker protests, "Someone must stay with the machine!" Freder assures him that he will stay with the machine in the worker's place.
This German story is a utopic vision of a Marxist society that goes too far. The protagonist, Jon Frederson (John Masterman in the English version) and his son Freder Frederson are members of the wealthy class, living high above the proletariat of yeoman workers who are crowded together in the urban squalor of Metropolis.
Rotwang is a brilliant scientist and inventor, whose greatest achievement is the creation of a robot made in the form of a woman (the Maschinenmensch, or Machine-Person).). Originally, he intended to make a replacement for his lost love, Hel, a beautiful woman who eventually chose Joh Fredersen, master of the city and Rotwang's rival, instead of
This German story is a utopic vision of a Marxist society that goes too far. The protagonist, Jon Frederson (John Masterman in the English version) and his son Freder Frederson are members of the wealthy class, living high above the proletariat of yeoman workers who are crowded together in the urban squalor of Metropolis.
Jan 12, 2013 · A member of the latter is a young man named Freder Frederson (Gustav Frohlich), who is son of the master of Metropolis, Joh Frederson (Alfred Abel). Freder, who spends most of his time running around in outsized white knickerbockers having fun with his friends, doesn’t know of the worker’s existence until he encounters a beautiful girl ...
When Freder wakes up, he hallucinates that the assistant is the monk from the church earlier, portending the apocalypse. Images of Freder staring up at the imagined pulpit are interpolated with images of the Maria robot dancing for the room full of lascivious gentleman, gyrating seductively for their benefit.
Freder, his father, Rotwang, Maria, Robot Maria, the machines of Metropolis, the nightclub-goers in Yoshiwara, and the uprising workers all have their own recurring themes. Locked into Strangeness : Fredersen has dark hair throughout most of the film, up until he sees Freder and Rotwang fighting atop the cathedral.
