Religious Themes in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis In 1927 an Austrian director, Fritz Lang, gave audiences a look at how the future may be constructed in his film, Metropolis. Set in about 100 years into the future from when the movie was created, the film shows how a Utopian society which shares the same name as the title of the film, Metropolis. There seems to be no middle class, as the rich have become carefree and the poor who are depicted as slaves. The social class has been so divided that; the rich are visionaries whom rely on the lower class, making their vision come to live, as they have no idea how to reach it. With the exact opposite happening with the poor, they know how to work and achieve things, but cannot think for themselves. The unique notion that is present in this film is the amount of religious themes that Fritz Lang cleverly fused into the movie. The three strongest pieces of…show more content… In the Bible, Christians and readers alike can draw comparisons to the passage in Genesis. “Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth” (Bible). The tower of Babel in the film is seen as a landmark that illustrates how the heads of the city is striving to become Godlike. With Maria already telling the workers the story of Babel, it is thus even more important foreshadowing for the movie. Just like the story of the Bible, the city will be crushed as the tower crumbles as the people are therefore punished. “The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there to over all of the earth and they stopped building the city“
