Metropolis
The film Metropolis, written in 1926, was set in 2026. If you've never seen it, it is worth watching once just for the early science fiction setting. Picture white arcologies with elevated roads and a lot of airplanes flying at building level. This was the first feature-length SF film. It is a silent movie with interspersed cards that you read. It was a big budget movie, for the time: inflation-adjusted, it cost a little more than Godzilla Minus One, or three times as much to make as Primitive War. Like everybody in 1926, the film is talking about class struggle-- the Communists had recently attempted a takeover of Germany hoping for an outcome like in Russia. The plot was a little confusing, mainly because it is hard to understand the robot-Maria's motivations, Basically, Freder, the naive, pampered prince of the city falls in love with a reformer, Maria. When he goes to the deep levels of the city to follow her, he learns of the terrible conditions there among the workers, w...
