'Metropolis' by Fritz Lang

Metropolis is a black and white film, which was produced in Germany and directed by Fritz Lang. It is a silent film that have only a background music playing, and whenever the movie is trying to tell some important part, they will run up the words for people to read and understand.

The film is basically about the 2 classes of people in the industrial age, which are the planner and management who live on the ground in a futuristic mega city with luxurious skyscraper. Another class is the working class people that live in the underground. The city was build by Joh Frederson, who has a son named Freder, his life was all about luxurious, but one day that he was at the eternal garden, he saw a bunch of children with a woman who are a working class people. Freder was fascinated by them and when those children and a woman was being chased back down, Freder followed them down and had a chance to experience about the working class people's lives for the first time, that is not so pleasantly to please, when there is a machine that exploded and had killed many people.

After that he has confront his father about this issue, about the explosion and the working class people, but his father didn't listen to him. In which has made Freder going down in the underground and work taking shift between the working people.

In my opinion, this movie is trying to convey about the social crisis about those period of times between the working class and the owner, that the working class people are slave and working under the owner and that they are being treated badly. Somehow that the worker is like a machine that is working with a machine itself.

Tom Wolfe - 'From Bauhaus to our house' book

An opinionated kind of book that critiqued about the architecture that started in Germany which is Bauhaus, it observed about the principles of modern architecture, and its origin, which categorize former work classic and bourgeoise.

Bauhaus is a group of people that come together and share about this information that they want to build this kind of architecture. One of the head leader is Walter Gropius, he is the one who started Bauhaus, and has approach "starting from zero", it is being call this way because Germany had passed during the period of war, in which have many people from other country not liking this style of architecture, and rejected all of it.

Although, this architecture is mostly for working class german but they didn't like this style of architecture either, because they are still wanting the architecture that look grand and luxury. The architecture of Bauhaus is very simple and minimalism, with a very simple shape and form.

However, it was rejected in the past, but in this present, the architecture has got many inspiration from it, that have made the present time of modernism, which can be see from many skyscraper from many country that have a plain and simple shape of architecture.