metropolis birmingham http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CiB-Google-copy-32x32.jpg metropolis birmingham http://www.createdinbirmingham.com 32 32 Metropolis Birmingham http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/05/metropolis-birmingham/ http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/05/metropolis-birmingham/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:48:45 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=2033 [Read more...]]]> Beautifully put by Jon over at Birmingham: It’s Not Shit:

Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis is set in “the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged.”

Birmingham 2008 has parallels according to this clip on the ol’ YouTubes:

Vid made by vjdelsyd.

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