Tracing the thread…
His masterpiece *Metropolis* presents a dystopian vision of industrial society where massive machinery dominates human existence and class struggle.
Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom/United States*Modern Times* satirizes industrial machinery and factory automation as dehumanizing forces that reduce workers to mechanical cogs.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionHis films like *Stalker* and *Solaris* meditate on technology and industrial civilization's relationship with nature and human consciousness.