METROPORISU ....Studying the use of flat images in movie sets

I was interested in studying how Japanese animation movies use flatness in the construction of the cinematic environment. 

Metroporisu is the Japanese Anime adaptation from the original movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang.

Metropolis is a futuristic city where humans and robots coexist uneasily. Robots are heavily discriminated  and segregated into the city's lowest level. 

Much of the city's human population is unemployed and very poor; many blame the robots for taking their jobs.

What it is really interesting and fascinating in the movie is the design of the structure of the city (spread through different levels) and the use of flat images to create the effect of a real 3D space.

What really interested me, and I would like to take into my project, is how the cinematic experience can transform a flat 2D image into a tangible and complex space. 

Here below there are some of the most significant images related to the movie environment and set.