Maria's Essence Transfer Scenes In The Film 'Metropolis'

Scene Analysis: Maria’s Essence Transfer
The scene in which Rotwang recreates the Machine-Man in the likeness of Maria is one of the most visually complex scenes in the silent film; Metropolis. The events leave the viewers with several important questions. What is being taken from Maria and putt into the robot? What does the scene say about the difference between machines and people? Why is the pentagram painted on the wall of the labratory?
What is being taken from the Maria and putt into the Machine-Man? Something important to note is that the heart is the first thing to be transferred into the robot. The heart is an extremely important presence in the film acting as the mediator between the hands and the brain. It represents the human soul, or conscious. The Machine-Man possesses a mechanical brain and hands but lacks something that cannot be artificially created, a heart. This is why the heart is the first thing to appear inside the robot during the transfer and why the process requires a human to be successful.
What does this scene say about the difference between machines and people? Throughout the film machine are personified to the point that they can be seen as living. They are compared to monsters and gods that requires humans to keep them alive. The only difference is that they do not possess hearts. This scene
The scene implies that the only difference between people and machines is the heart, and by transferring this we can make “people” from machines. It also suggests that the act of taking a person’s heart and putting it into a machine is evil and required knowledge that that should not be used. Perhaps this ninety year old movie is even more relevant now as the use of artificial intelligence and machine workers are becoming more and more