I was looking into some upscale/reconstruction videos and ran into Metropolis:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Be955EMr13o [Embed]

Was never a huge fan of it, but it makes way more sense now and its a good way to explain a lot of biblical metaphor to modern people.

Basically, the story is about men being seduced by technology, which in this story is represented by the robot girl who is also portrayed as Babalon (Crowley's demon waifu) because they mistake her for true love (shown in the duality of the real girl vs the fake girl and the robot made of her image).
Thus men build the babel tower, which is a metaphor to science. It is abstract language/thinking development in order to reach God/The immaterial.
And ultimately this mistake leads to suffering and so forth.

Even way back in Weimar republic when this was made they used the same imagery and concepts. Hitler liked the movie too.