Released five years before Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" led a wave of dystopian science fiction challenging the most basic assumptions about human society, Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece "Metropolis" has influenced both the genre and cinema itself to a degree that's difficult to overstate. The obvious debt that later stylistic ground-breakers such as "Blade Runner," "Brazil," "Batman" and "The Matrix" owe the film demonstrates just how indelibly Lang's vision has been stamped on the wo