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Thea von Harbou: Metropolis (2013)

Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The …

I got this one since I remember I liked the movie but don’t remember too much from it (I had to watch it in episodes since it requires attention over a long timespan). I didn’t think of maybe getting the original German language, which would be my native language as well. The translation shows how old the text is and it’s hard to stop myself from trying to translate into what I think the original text could have been in my head while reading it, feels like the translation is close to a word-by-word one. So yeah, this is gonna be exhausting as well, but I’m still gonna try and see how far I’ll make it :)