Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "When Fritz Lang released Metropolis in 1927, he essentially drafted the blueprint for cinematic science fiction. Its towering cityscape, layered highways and smokestack skylines shaped how the future would look on film for decades, echoed in everything from Blade Runner and Dark City to the planet-wide cities of modern space sagas. The Maschinenmensch, the female robot at the film’s centre, became one of cinema’s most copied designs, a direct ancestor to later a