Manual labour on film could really work
I don’t think I’m alone in agreeing with whoever said, “I love work. I could watch it all day” After watching the almost pristine print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1926) at the Berlinale a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that the lion’s share of the time spent by the vast majority of the population of the world is seldom portrayed on screen. Namely, manual labourers and their work. Why this …