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SUMMARY:HumHonCultureCon Movie Event: Metropolis (1927)
LOCATION:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Library 225\, 150 E. San Fernando St
 reet\, San Jose\, CA 95112
DESCRIPTION:Over the 2026–27 school year\, the SJSU's Humanities Honors Pr
 ogram is pleased to bring you the Humanities Honors Cultural Connections 
 film series — or HumHonCultureCon\, for short! — FREE movie events open t
 o the campus community and general public that explore the interconnected
 ness of global cultures and that relate to material taught in Humanities 
 Honors courses.\n\nEach HumHonCultureCon event will feature extras and su
 rprises. This one is a joint event and is also part of the Campus Reading
  Program's I\, Robot film series.\n\nFilm and Event Format\n\nMetropolis\
 , Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 science-fiction masterpiece and one of the gre
 atest movies of the silent film era\, presented a chilling vision of a ci
 ty of the future where the rich live high in the sky while the poor toil 
 far below.\n\nThis monumentally influential film has it all: robots capab
 le of assuming any human form\, flying cars\, a wealthy master planner pl
 otting to repress a workers’ rebellion\, and a deranged inventor who beca
 me the visual model for Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. At the center of it al
 l stands a pair of unlikely lovers (Brigitte Helm and Alfred Abel)\, one 
 from the city above and one from the city below\, whose burgeoning romanc
 e could either heal this divided world or accelerate its rush to catastro
 phe.\n\nFamed for its architectural vision of the modern city and its ima
 ginative mixture of science-fiction technologies with motifs from mytholo
 gy and folklore\, Metropolis is a foundational work that directly influe\
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