“METROPOLIS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 14

“METROPOLIS”

U.F.A.’S STUPENDOUS CONCEPTION "Metropolis," the U.F.A. spectacle, which will be filmed at Everybody's on Thursday next, is undoubtedly one of the greatest pictures ever made. A private screening of the film last evening more than substantiated all that has been written concerning “Metropolis.” The conception of the theme is itself stupendous—the creation of a mechanical man replete with brain, and responding to human control. U.F.A. has made a wonderful film, a picture that should make men think. What will be the end of this age of materialism and mechanics? That is the question that “Metropolis” asks, and answers. The brain cannot work without the hands. The heart is the natural connecting link between the two. Brain cannot be (.'♦.orced from the hands: neither can heart be separated from either. “Metropolis” is not a bizarre futuristic conception of a crazy mind, nor is it a panorama of towering skyscrapers gone mad in Cubist designs. “Metropolis” is merely the far-sighted vision, set 100 years from now. by a man who looks into to-morrow instead of to-day, and visualises a city towering to the skies, controlled by one man, who has perfected all the scientific inventions which to-day are merely in their infancy, and used them for his own purposes. Set in these novel surroundings is an age-old story of love, ambition and greed. It is thrilling, gripping and mightily human. It is no more impossible than were the visions of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, which have all become accomplished facts during the past few years.