Modernity & Metropolis

Lecture this week is about modernity and modernism , one is still alive and one is dead. We can still see modernity nowadays , while the modernism is dead , through many things such as architecture , government , and etc. At the end of the class , we watched the movie called 'Metropolis' which is silence movie with the sentences or words as the conversation instead. This scene of this film really show the modernity in term of architecture , high rise building and skyscraper. It also shown in the story about the industrial part of the city at the underground city. This make me think about the transparency. The people on ground seem not to know what happen underground with the faceless labor , who are named by numbers like really not important person. It contrasts with the very modern setting that everyone should be the equal unit , it is for every underground guys but it's not if compare with people above. Where is the equality? Another thing is the government of the city do not tell the process , what's going on underground , to the public , so how it is call transparent according to the idea of modernity. This movie makes me realize that what others tell you is not always true and what you saw with your eyes is not always true also. Where is the truth??