He promised that if he was told the content of Lindsey""s message in the microdot video (hoping that his own name was cleared), Julia would live.Plot SynopsisThe film opens to a man and women making passionate love, reflected in a ceiling mirror.] BackgroundMetropolis(1927) is a stylized, visually-compelling, melodramatic silent film set in the dystopic, 21st century city of Metropolis - a dialectical reatise on man vs.]:Jerry: Suppose he loses?Joe: What are you worried about? This show is gonna last a long time.Jerry: Suppose it doesn""t?Joe: Jerry boy, why do you have to paint everything so black?...Suppose you got hit by a truck.Supposethe Stock Market crashes.SupposeMary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks.Supposethe Dodgers leave Brooklyn...Suppose Lake Michigan overflows.The police raid the speakeasy and round up everyone, while Joe and Jerry are forced out of a job and sneak out with their instruments to avoid arrest.