The Mediator between the Heart and the Hands
That mediator, according to Fritz Lang's fantastic classic movie Metropolis, is the heart. In that movie, a sinister magnate named Johnathan Fredersen finds that his subterranean workers are being compelled by the gentle heroine Maria to seek a mythic "mediator" who will bargain for their rights. In an attempt to destroy the Union movement, Fredersen disguises a newly developed robot as Maria and orders the robot to incite the workers to revolution.
The workers begin destroying the machines of the Metropolis, which they needed to survive, at the insistence of the magnate's provocateur robot. Caught up in the passion of the moment, they fail to realize that they've left their children behind to be drowned in the depths as the demolished "heart machine" is unable to retain the water in the city's reservoirs.
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