The meaning of this scene can be defined by the different dynamics occurring in Freder's psyche. Unlike Maria, who goes from a balanced mind to a mechanical mind, Freder goes from simply paying attention to the id to rationalizing with the id and ego, and realizes that his society has mistreated the members of the class worker. JP Tellote believes that "the sequence in which Freder takes the place of the worker, for example, only shows the horrors of being chained to a mechanism, reduced to a machine function, after having first illustrated the power of seduction which contributes to keeping the classes separate, everyone in their place” (Telotte 53). Later in the film, at minute 40:52, Freder shouts in an exhausted manner "Father-!" Father-! Will ten hours never end--??!!", finally empathizing with the difficulties the working class must endure in the current stratification of their society, the ego and the id finally coming to a head consensus. As with Maria, this Freder scene is also associated with several biblical allusions. According to Rutsky, "Freder is quite explicitly presented as a Christ figure: he descends to the level of the workers and takes the place of an exhausted worker, where he suffers and is 'crucified' on the machine's control dial." Pater Noster.” , crying to his father for relief” (Rutsky 5). In this scene, Freder becomes the savior of the exhausted worker and sacrifices his goods and wealth to understand the lives of his "brothers". Furthermore, from this point on, Freder becomes the "mediator", attempting to incite dialogue between the leaders of Metropolis and the working class. This is also a direct biblical allusion since, according to the Bible, Christ came to earth as a medi...... middle of paper ...... after the film was released , the problems of Metropolis are still relevant today. While critics in the 1920s were quick to harshly criticize the film, new generations found it inspiring, even prophetic, rightly divining the course of history. Even HG Wells, founder of modern science fiction and harsh critic of Lang's Metropolis, responded to the film by creating his own version (Testa 182). Whether today or eighty years ago, Fritz Lang's Metropolis resonates with audiences because of the similarities between that society and ours. Fritz Lang does not claim that technology will generate a regressive society, Lang argues that not only an unstable human mind, but also an unstable society, which is not in contact with all parts of the psyche, ego, superego and that. , could be easily attracted by the technology of ornaments brought to a society.