"...Metropolis is not so much a film about machines as it is itself machine, made up of parts fitted together, whose intricate clockwork elements are as much the human passions, anxieties and aggressions as they are the pistons, flywheels as dials."
Elsaesser, Thomas. Metropolis (Bfi Film Classics, 54). British Film Institute, 2000. pg. 64
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Metropolis, the futuristic avant-garde film about the glory and tragedy of an age of the machines, challenges one to read the structure of its world as an embodiment of interrelated functions. It is compared to a machine here by Elsaesser, a body of one mechanical entity with individual mechanical components - much like a human body.
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