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Metropolis Summarizer

After Watching Metropolis, in your view, what is the Mediator?:
In the world of Metropolis society can be separated into head and hands with the Mediator being the heart in between. The upper class living above ground is Metropolis' head with the workers living underground being Metropolis' hands. In between the two we have Freder as Metropolis' mediator and heart. By the plot's end Freder has successfully brought both the upper and working class together just like how a heart is what lets both the head and hands function together.
Is Fritz Lang trying to influence us? Is he advocating for Capitalism? Communism? Fascism?:
I feel that Fritz Lang is trying to influence us and he is doing this by advocating for Communism. The plot point of the workers rebelling against those who are higher up is similar to how the Russian government was overthrown by the workers in order to be equal. At the end of the story we see both parties standing together in hand. Being together I fell this represents everybody being "equal" such as in a communist society.

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