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"I Have Recently Seen the Silliest Film."


January 19, 2010
by Matthew Rodriguez

H. G. Wells bitchy review of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" was published in the New York Times in April 17, 1927. Metropolis has been hailed as seminal film with a wide ranging cultural influence. Wells' opinion? Meh, mainly because he sniffs a certain aroma of artistic plagiarism.

Possibly I dislike this soupy whirlpool none the less because I find decaying fragments of my own juvenile work of thirty years ago, The Sleeper Awakes, floating about in it.

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