Title: Sci-fi in the real world.
Review: Godard's "Alphaville" isn't a sci-fi cartoon, or even afuturistic fantasy: it is a comic-strip meditation ontechnology and man's place in a world which embraces it --the precursor, as it were, to the Unabomber Manifesto, albeitone which doesn't take itself so seriously. Godard's words,indeed, are as bombs in this all-out attack on thedisintegration of emotion, language, and love in the modernage. He is famous as a film director, but his directionwas often casual and hurried; what makes his films moveare the quickness of the ideas and the verbal slapstick ofthe dialogues. Worth reading if you've never seen the film, orif you've seen it a hundred times.
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