Metropolis Refound (2010)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 47M
Director : Evangelina Loguercio, Diego Panich, Laura Tusi, Sebastián Yablón
Sinopse
Argentinian film historians find a complete print of Fritz Lang's “Metropolis” (1927) at Buenos Aires Film Museum and take it to Germany for its restoration.
Dredd é um agente da lei responsável por prender, julgar e executar os criminosos de uma megalópole do futuro. Sua missão atual é combater o surgimento de uma nova droga, poderosa e ilegal, além de treinar uma nova recruta com poderes psíquicos.
O futuro ė distante e o mundo está sob o comando dos poderosos, que isolaram os mais pobres no subsolo como se fossem seus escravos, para que trabalhassem em prol dos mesmos. Comandados por Freder Fredersen, os operários são obrigados a trabalharem sem parar para que a cidade não pare.
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Nova York. Erica Bain é uma apresentadora de rádio e tem um noivo que a adora. Ela está feliz com sua vida, até que um ataque brutal a deixa seriamente ferida e mata seu noivo. Sem conseguir superar a tragédia, Erica passa a vasculhar as ruas à noite, em busca dos homens que considera ser os responsáveis pelo que lhe aconteceu. Sua busca por justiça chama a atenção da população, que passa a acompanhar sua perseguição anônima. Porém Mercer, um obstinado detetive, está decidido a encerrar sua jornada. Ao mesmo tempo Erica começa a se questionar, sem saber se está se tornando justamente aquilo que deseja evitar.
Metrópolis é uma grande cidade do futuro, onde convivem homens e robôs. A civilização atingiu um outro estágio e as sociedades estão absolutamente segmentadas. É neste cenário que o detetive Syunsaku Ban e seu parceiro Kenichi procuram pelo Dr. Laughton. A dupla quer não só prender o cientista, como também se apoderar de Tima, a jovem robô criada por ele.
Appleseed se passa num mundo que acabou de sofrer uma guerra não-nuclear, porém esta guerra foi tão longa, que ainda existem soldados pelo mundo que não sabem do fim dela. Um desses soldados é Deunan Knute, a protagonista do filme. No inicio do filme, ela está se defendendo de outros soldados quando um terceiro grupo entra e a captura. Esse grupo pertence a cidade, chamada Olympus que sobreviveu a guerra. A cidade é controlada por um super-computador, Gaia, regido por sete anciões, The Seven Wisest Men. Metade da população da cidade é Bioroid, um tipo de clone, criados para que a sociedade fique mais estável.
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