I found this to be a very good, very different film, and for anyone that wants to see something different, I recommend this one as a must see. It seems like the people on Alphaville think they are on another planet. When you have that feeling, anything is possible.
Alphaville is run by Alpha 60 which is a giant supercomputer. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an Outland agent, checks into an Alphaville hotel as Ivan Johnson, a reporter from Figaro-Pravda. The hotel manager assigns him a room, a Seductress and a bottle of tranquilizers for the evening.
Alpha 60 has dehumanized the residents by fostering complacency by supplying mind numbing drugs, outlawing emotions, and limiting sources of information. Instead of Alpha 60 evolving to copy the complex behavior of its creator, humans have adapted to the limited capacity of its logical director. Lemmy and Natacha Von Braun (Anna Karina) set out to find the missing men in which that brings chaos to the world of Alphaville. However during their adventure they discover the infinite possibilities of independent thoughts and human emotion.
This most definitely is superficial because back during these times who knew what a computer was? It was like looking into the future and having that feeling of surreal because it wasn’t real. Godard's futuristic vision is presented through an odd synthesis of gangster style, romance, and pop culture, resulting in a cleverly and humorous. This is definitely an original film for the books.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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