How does Fritz Lang use the Devices of Mise En Scene to Devolpe the charchter's themes and narrative at the beginning of Metropolis ?

Metropolis

Location/Setting

Setting That should be a western country perhaps because of people's faces.


Location 1 FactoryAt the beginning, there is a clock ticking and steam came out after the time reach 12. It means the time of the shift because there is a bunch of workers coming out from a lift while another bunch of workers going into. They all come to a factory which located underground.

Location 2 Garden
There are two people in the scene which are a man and a woman, they are chilling with each other , the guys is chasing the girl perhaps. The place is totally different from location 1 .

Comparison between locations
The factory is old and it's located underground which people can not see the sky upstair. 
The garden is gorgeous which seems for the elite class.


Characters.


Working Class
People walk like zombies or army, death like, they look tired and they look like a bunch of slaves , maybe they are sick of working and they have no choice or destiny. I think they are the working class , they need to live and work underground. Doing the same thing, having the same routine everyday.


Elite/Ruling Class
People at the garden dress much better than the workers. They look delighted and at least they enjoy their life. From their smile, what they are doing is to chill and have fun. They do need to work probably but they don't even have a shift at least.
The guy, the woman who is being with the children and the workers .

The Main Protagonists

 

This man should be one of the main character in the movie because the camera follows and focus him most of the time. He has some close up shots too which means he is probably a significant character in the movie.


The woman being with the children is another important character in the movie. She appears in the garden while the man is chilling with another girl. The man looks at her and he is attracted by her obviously, he asked the guard who the girl is. He did follow the girl after the girl left. He may want to chase her back. There are two close up shots for both of them when they look at each other . The way they look at each other can tell they are attracted by each other.

Lighting

The focus is the massive steam machine in the middle of the frame, all the things surrounding the machine are quite dark but the machine is bright and clearly shown so there may be massive light on front , behind the camera.

The workers are important because they are one out of two main groups ( Working class and Ruling class ) in the movie. They have loads of shots in the movie too, appearing at most of the time, it can be a clue about the narrative and it can tell what's happening in the movie.



Narrative


It's a world which have two classes which are the ruling class and the working class perhaps, The workers are working most of the  time and they got the shift while the elites are enjoy their life.A man from the elite met a daughter of a worker  and then he try to follow the girl after she left, he walked pass the factory where the workers work in and he saw an explosion made by the worker by accident. After the explosion, A massive monster-like figure appeared and there is a door which is its mouth, workers who made the explosion may be killed or caught to somewhere else, the mouth of the monster is an entry.........