METROPOLIS 1927 Movie Review – Is It Worth Watching?

“Why don’t you ever review any silent films?” Dis Drawma Kingg gets asked this question all the time. I’ll just be walking down the street and people keep shouting it at me! In today’s episode (#54) we will deeply analyze the 1927 movie Metropolis!

I’ve been meaning to watch Metropolis for many years. Perhaps the universe nudged me to wait until I created drawmakingg.com so that episode #54 would eventually come into existence. Shortly into the movie, you realize that watching it is going to require significant effort. Characters say lots o’ things to each other and you just have to interpret what the words are.

One scene I managed to interpret:

Character 1: I do believe you still owe me 30 bucks.

Character 2: Yeah, but I ain’t payin’ it.

Character 1: You liar! You promised me! I thought we were friends!

Character 2: We were, but your friendship ain’t worth 30 bucks to me.

Or this other riveting scene:

Character 3: You don’t look like yourself today.

Character 4: Anguish, agony, despair, existential dread, hopelessness…

Character 3: You are experiencing those feelings?

Character 4: Pain, hunger, would like a cookie, disturbed, unnerved, unchallenged, exhausted.

Character 3: I can get the doctor!

Character 4: No! I only feel this way because someone took my parking spot!

Character 3: All of those emotions just from something as simple as that?

Character 4: Have you SEEN the traffic outside?

Is It Worth Watching?: Yes, if you are a lover of cinema, film history, or silent films.

Final Thoughts: This may be the hardest Crown Rating I have ever had to decide. Metropolis likely would have felt like a 9 or 10 if I were a movie critic in 1927. The sets were amazing, the artistic vision of the whole metropolis was unique, and the android design is remarkably cool. I think I will have to go with 9/10 Crowns official Drawma Kingg rating of Metropolis! From this episodic experience we all now know why it’s bad to encourage me to interpret silent films. So quit yellin’ it at me when I’m taking a casual stroll down the local street!