THEME EXPLORATION

mechanization and automation

3 films · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Desk Set
Desk Set
1957 · Walter Lang
Patlabor EZY: File 1
Patlabor EZY: File 1
2026 · Kozo Kaiho
The Day of Reckoning
The Day of Reckoning
1990 · Samuel Fuller
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

His masterpiece 'Modern Times' (1936) is the definitive cinematic critique of industrial mechanization and its dehumanizing effects on workers.

 Walter Lang Germany

His dystopian epic 'Metropolis' (1927) explores the clash between human society and mechanical automation in a futuristic industrialized city.