Simmel in his 1903 essay entitled "The Metropolis and Mental Life", infers that this would impact the individual in becoming "completely internally atomised". This is evident in the metropolitan population. The workers, however, experience a much deeper impact of such dehumanization, and the same goes for the "Sons' Club", who were treated as commodity subjects. The Eternal Gardens scene conveys this dehumanization when the women are introduced: “Which of you ladies will this day have the honor of entertaining Master Freder…?” Thus commodified as mere products of sexuality and pleasure. The dehumanization of workers is explicitly depicted in the scene where Freder first sees the underground machines. It begins with the staging that captures the monolithic, sharp and angular scenography of the machine, influenced by expressionist Art Deco and Cubism. A wide shot, from below, symbolically indicates the machine that dominates the life of the workers, with its rhythmic diegetic drums, alluding to those of the human heart. The workers operated the machines, with their monotonous, stylized and rhythmic movements, which replicated that of a