Metropolis and the birth of Cyberpunk.

Metropolis is a 1927 sci-fi movie by German director Fritz Lang. It is a beatiful expressionistic and surreal story about the creation of a female android (or ginoid) in a futuristic distopian city called Metropolis.

Metropolis is believed to be the first movie within the genre of Science Fiction to have explored what is known as cyberpunk.

What is Cyberpunk?

Neuromancer by William Gibson is the most important book on Cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that exploded in the early 80s. This genre focuses on dystopian futuristic societies where individuals coexist with high technology, cybernetic organisms, advanced computers, artificial intelligences, and all of that in a society that seems to increase in terms of crime as it does in term of advanced technology. Of course, this genre emerged primarly in literature, but it also did in cinema, television, anime, manga and even videogames.

 

The first Cyberpunk movie?

Followers of this genre (such as us, Steph and Juan) believe that it started in the cinema with Metropolis, although the cyberpunk manifesto appeared only until the 80s. However, director Fritz Lang did an excellent fantastic job with his work of art: he had already explored the subjects of oppressive dystopian societes, cyborgs, futuristic cities and imagery, etc.

So, if you ask us: Is this the first manifestation of Cyberpunk as it is known nowadays?, we will firmly answer: Yes, it is indeed.