Re:H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis" (1927)
by lqet on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:34PM
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> I wouldn't put a lot of stock in to proto-Nazi Germany's discounting "sentimentality" in Metropolis.
I think this is being way too harsh on the critics. Sadly, I forgot to add the sources above. The first quote is from a liberal newspaper, the second is from a satirical magazine (Simplicissimus [0], certainly above suspicion when it cames to Nazism) and the last one is from a communist newspaper. H. G. Wells himself notices a "sauce of sentimentality".
> We know where hard-hearted disavowals of sentimentality led.
I don't want to start the discussion whether Metropolis is a pro-Nazi film (it isn't), but we certainly know where a hard-hearted embrace of kitsch sentimentality led.
I think this is being way too harsh on the critics. Sadly, I forgot to add the sources above. The first quote is from a liberal newspaper, the second is from a satirical magazine (Simplicissimus [0], certainly above suspicion when it cames to Nazism) and the last one is from a communist newspaper. H. G. Wells himself notices a "sauce of sentimentality".
> We know where hard-hearted disavowals of sentimentality led.
I don't want to start the discussion whether Metropolis is a pro-Nazi film (it isn't), but we certainly know where a hard-hearted embrace of kitsch sentimentality led.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicissimus