Is art defined timeless? People say film is art but if you watch the movies from the 30s or 40s they are hot garbage whereas I can read a book from the 30s or 40s and it is still fresh and impactful. Even go back hundreds of years and the literature and paintings look great but the same can't be said for film
Art is objective, appreciation is subjective.
art is a meaningless buzzword
Film was still a very young form of art, then.
There are fewer examples of great films from that time period because the medium was in a tremendous state of flux and most creators didn't really know what to do with the tools they had. Folks were also generally pretty easy to impress back then.
metropolis was a great film gives off a sort of wagner-ess vibe something like a modern twilight of the gods
Reminder that some art created by the least worthy of praise and distinction and that life isn't fair.