randy_byers: (machine man)
randy_byers ([personal profile] randy_byers) wrote2010-12-18 10:30 am

The Weimar Future


Metropolis (1927)


This screencap is from the recently restored footage, which is from pretty badly damaged 16mm film stock, thus the poor quality. It's from a brief montage representing the Yoshiwara District in Metropolis, which is essentially the red-light district (named after a district in Tokyo/Edo where prostitution was legal until 1958). When I first saw this montage at the SIFF Theater show, I read all three faces as female, but now that I'm able to take a closer look on DVD, it seems to me that the gender of at least two of them is ambiguous. More Weimar sophistication?

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