Some movies worth seeing more than once, because from the desire to push the viewer to repeat the experience pleasure. Similarly there are stories that are happy to hear again, but the story has been told many times. One is the researcher and collector of movies Fernando Martín Peña, in his book Metropolis. This is a story whose purpose is to expose the details of the discovery of the only complete copy of this great classic film Metropolis is (1927), German Fritz Lang, a widespread news that shocked the world of cinema. Beyond the reconstruction punctilious Peña makes route as absurd film and gradual process of mutilation, which becomes unique to this version of the familiar story is, above all, the tone acquires police when he begins the story of the discovery. There, a Peña become a sort of Philip Marlowe is accumulating evidence for 20 years, including an unexpected revelation, the confrontation with two unscrupulous bureaucrats and to a woman (Paula Félix-Didier, director of the Museum of Cinema) to help close Metropolis case shortly after that seems unsolvable. That end is actually the beginning of another story, the final restoration of one of the most notable icons of twentieth century culture. The edition is completed by an appendix consisting of reviews of the film made at the time of its release in 1928 and harsh criticism that will conduct the English writer HG Wells. Article originally published in the Culture section Argentine Time.
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