So We're Going To Be Forced To Use The Term; "Charity Work" Then.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14555537/Miley-Cyrus-drops-big-hints-9th-album-Beautiful.html

The 2010 release of "Metropolis" is divided into three parts, by inter-title cards onscreen reading; "Prelude," "Intermezzo" and "Furioso." Which are normally musical instructions given to an orchestra.

Obviously during the silent movie era it was impossible to include a soundtrack. However it was possible to show movies in a theatre with an orchestra. Like an opera. It was also possible to distribute a recording of the orchestra alongside the film.

So I'm forever wondering whether that was a mistake by the people who reconstructed the movie, almost like archaeologists. Or whether it was an intentional part of the movie. A reference to its Expressionist attempts to convey the emotion of the story like an opera. A discussion about how to use this new technology to tell stories.

Dividing movies up into Acts, like a traditional stage-play is almost a signature of Lars von Trier's work. One that seems to have been adopted by "The Brutalist" director Brady Corbet as he attempts to rescue Stacy Martin from the shadow of "Nymphomaniac" (2013).

Although having discovered that Stacy Martin was able to find work in the very Metropolis inspired warning about little Freders fiddling in the economy "High-Rise" (2015) I'm now wondering if we might make for quite good if slightly nerdy, less doloroso, friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrTnOH3rSNE&pp (City Of The Dead, The Clash, Official Audio).