From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!tas
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Alphaville
Article-I.D.: ariel.135
Posted: Mon Nov 22 09:35:53 1982
Received: Tue Nov 23 01:28:30 1982

I saw Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville about 3 years ago.  I remember that
it concerned the efforts of a detective named Lemmy Caution to destroy
a computer that controlled the hearts and minds of the residents of
Alphaville, nee Paris.  The whole movie had a kind of comic strip aura
about it; as a matter of fact, one of Caution's associates was named
Dick Tracy.  It was filled with strange images of a world
dominated by technology and violence: Godard periodically flashed
neon signs proclaiming  "e=mc**2" or "E=hv", or, when he really
wanted to get transcendent, "mc**2=hv".  Every day, new dictionaries
were distributed sans the words that had been banned the previous day.
And the computer itself was a strange gobbledygook of swinging
microphones and flashing lights.  I remember liking the movie, but I
was never quite sure why.

Tom Skrobala