10 Huge Problems You Consciously Ignore Because The Film Is So Good

9. Metropolis - Hitler's Favourite Movie

Metropolis is widely regarded as a masterpiece of early cinema. Directed by German trailblazer Fritz Lang, the silent film is enormous in scale, focusing on the conflict between upper and lower social classes in a dystopian future. Thousands of extras were used and giant sets erected to convey the contrasting conditions of the underground workers and the skyscraper-housed bourgeoisie. It is considered by many to be the first sci-fi film, and was recently restored, closer to it's director's original intention than ever before. Despite all this, it can be chilling to think Metropolis was Adolf Hitler's favourite movie. The grandeur of scale and the political uprising of the German people seemed to appeal to him. In fact it had such an effect on Hitler that he attempted to recruit Lang as his chief director of film propaganda - not aware that Lang was Jewish and about to escape to the United States. The film was reinvented as Triumph of the Will, a Nazi propaganda film made by Leni Reifenstahl - another problematic masterpiece to many critics. Anyone watching the film today has to reconcile the fact they share a little more in common with the most evil man in history than they'd care to admit.