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Sometimes,
reality is too complex
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for oral communication
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But legend embodies it
in a form
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which enables it to spread
all over the world
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It was 24.17, Oceanic Time
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when I approached
the suburbs of Alphaville
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Silence. Logic.
Security. Prudence
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My paper reserved
a room for me:
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- You are?
- Ivan Johnson
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- Which paper?
- Figaro-Pravda
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Room 344. Have you registered
at Residents Control?
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You must, even if you're
a Festival visitor
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Your bag, sir
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- Please, sir.
- Nothing. Get lost
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This way, sir
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You're tired, sir?
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You wish to sleep, sir?
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It's this way, sir
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If you're tired,
you can rest, sir
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Here it is, sir
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The bedroom's here, sir
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- What are you looking for now?
- I'm checking if the Bible's here
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- Everyone has one.
- Do you believe that?
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Yes, of course
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I'll leave you the tranquillizers
in the bathroom
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I'm very well.
Thank you so very much
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- Are you going to take a bath, sir?
- Yes, I must reflect
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I'll help you, sir
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And your tie, sir
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- Now what? -I'll take a bath
with you, sir, if you like
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Listen, doll, I'm a big boy
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I can find dames all alone
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Now get lost
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Be polite to the ladies,
Mr. Johnson
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Shit. Now what?
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This kid doesn't please you?
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And your sister, sir?
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- I'm getting out of shape.
- What sir?
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What's going on here?
Are you on drugs or what?
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No, it's normal, sir
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All things weird are normal
in this whore of cities
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Sit in that chair
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Her name was Beatrice
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She said she was a seductress,
third class
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I was struck by the sadness
and durability of her face
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Something's not in orbit
in the capital of this Galaxy
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Hold this up
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Not bad for a veteran
of Guadalcanal
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Just what I was thinking
about you
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Go play your games
with someone else
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I've heard it before
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Yes? Mr. Johnson
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Miss Natasha Von Braun
calls for you
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Just a moment, please
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Leonard Von Braun, inventor
of the death ray
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bring back alive, or liquidate
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Tell her to wait,
I'll be down in 5 minutes
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She's on her way up
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Henry Dickson, Agent X21,
12, Enrico Fermi, Alphaville
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Got a light?
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I've traveled 9,000 kilometers
to give it to you
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- I'm Natasha Von Braun.
- Yes, I know
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How do you know?
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You are Miss Von Braun
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Yes, I'm very well,
thank you so very much
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You come from the Outlands,
Mr. Johnson?
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- Everything to your satisfaction?
- Yes
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I've been ordered to stay
in your service
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during your stay in Alphaville
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Who ordered you?
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The authorities, of course
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You came for the festival,
Mr. Johnson?
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Which festival?
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The big one; that's why people
from the Outlands come
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- In my opinion, it's silly
you did not. -Why?
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The festival's nearly over;
No more until next year
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You don't say
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Yes, Mr. Johnson
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But this evening,
there's a gala reception
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Very big
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At a ministry. I'm going;
come if you like
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OK.
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What time? I must attend
to something else first
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You must go to
Residents Control registration?
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No. What's that?
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You mustn't forget to go there,
Mr. Johnson. We can meet afterwards
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No, I'll go there tomorrow.
First I must meet a friend
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Me too, I've work to do
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I'll give you the address
where I'll be
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Call for me
and we'll go together
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OK. In an hour or two
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All right, see you later,
Mr. Johnson
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I'll go down with you, miss
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Mr. Johnson, what's it like
in the Outlands?
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You've never been?
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No, but my father told me about
them when I was little
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Now it's forbidden to think
about them
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Are you often ordered
to stay with strangers?
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- Yes, it's my job.
- Sometimes, it must be nice
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- Why?
- You never have love affairs?
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- What? -Has no one ever fallen
in love with you?
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In love? What's that?
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There's one thing I'd like
to know, miss
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- Yes, Mr. Johnson.
- You've finished taking me
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- for an ass, or are you beginning?
- Let go of me
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But answer me
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I don't understand,
what are you talking about?
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Realize, Princess. I don't know
what you're talking about either
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It's always like that.
You never understand anything
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Yes, it's always like that.
You never understand anything
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And one night,
you end it in death
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- Which way are you going?
- 12, Enrico Fermi
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That's after Heisenberg Boulevard,
not far from Mathematical Park
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I have a car, I can give you
a lift, if you wish. -OK.
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I'll get the keys
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- You don't want me to court you?
- What?
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You really don't know
what it means?
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Her smile and her small,
pointed teeth
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reminded me of the old
vampire films
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the sort they used to show
at cinerama museums
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I'm a programmer, second class
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Natasha's a name from the past
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Yes, but in life, one can
only know the present
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No one's lived in the past,
or will live in the future
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Thanks for the lift, anyway
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It's a pleasure to do my job,
Mr. Johnson
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It's much farther?
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You know we must cross
the North Zone, Miss
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What's the population
of Alphaville?
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Don't forget, you must go
to Residents Control
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Yes
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What exactly do you do
for a living?
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I work
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for a newspaper
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Professor Von Braun is
your father?
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It's vital that I write about him;
Could you arrange a meeting?
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I don't know. I've never seen him.
I'll ask
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Finally, I leave you
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- Here?
- I've changed my mind
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You have the address?
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Yes. Tell him to stop
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Telecommunication
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I'd like to telecommunicate
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- Galaxy or local call?
- Local
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Cabin 2
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Miss, do you know that man?
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Of course I know him.
Don't be stupid
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At the end of Galata Bridge
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one finds the Red Star.
My place
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You can't compare it
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to our splendid
galactic corridors
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all a-glitter with
luxury and light
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It's only a vast labyrinth,
tall, cramped
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Is this the Red Star Hotel?
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Yes, it is, thank you
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- Is Mr. Dickson in?
- He's out
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Fine, I'll wait
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You have money, sir?
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You can have a seat, sir,
if you're tired
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I wanted to see it again
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the tomb of
the Duc de Montpensier
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The reclining statue
of the Prince
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is the work of Pradier
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The Prince wears
the costume of
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Henry, it's me!
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We've got plenty to talk about
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- Where's my key?
- Where's my money, Mr. Dickson?
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- My key.
- His key
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And a beer
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And me?
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Why don't you hurry up
and commit suicide?
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We need the room for our cousin
from the south
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You come from the Outlands?
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Why did he ask
if you'd commit suicide?
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There's quite a few...
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There's quite a few who do
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One can't adapt to this place
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It's the method
the Chinese invented
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about thirty years ago
in Pekingville
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Dissuasion is their strong point
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What about those who won't adapt,
or commit suicide?
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- Those... they're executed.
- Yes, the authorities
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But one can hide, you know.
There aren't many left
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Dick Tracy, is he dead?
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And Guy Leclair?
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Why didn't we hear from them,
or from you, Henry?
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I'm sorry.
These things happen
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And what's Alpha 60?
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A giant computer, like they used
to have in big business
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Nueva York... IBM...
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Olivetti... General Electric...
Tokyorama...
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Alpha 60 is one hundred and fifty
light years more powerful
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I see. People have become slaves
of probabilities
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Their ideal here, in Alphaville
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is a technocracy, like that
of termites and ants
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I don't understand
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Probably one hundred and fifty
light years ago
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One hundred and fifty,
two hundred
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there were artists
in the ant society
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Artists, novelists,
musicians, painters
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Today, no more
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Nothing. Like here
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Has Professor Von Braun
organized it all?
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He obeys logical orders
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Then why didn't you kill him?
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"Why"... what does that word mean?
I forgot...
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You know his daughter, Natasha?
Who is she really?
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It was him they sent
to Los Alamos
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His name wasn't that then
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Answer! That wasn't his name
in those days
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Listen, Henry
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We'll get out together; you'll
be OK. But first you must...
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It's a terrible secret, but...
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Come in, Madame la Marquise
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My coat, Madame Recamier
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Thank you, Madame Pompadour
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Madame Bovary, Marie Antoinette
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Madame Lafayette
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Madame, it's love
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I'll say it in Russian
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So young and me
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Lemmy... conscience...
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Alpha 60... make...
self destruct...
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Tenderness...
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Save those who weep
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Yes, yes, that's it
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The Capital of Pain
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14, Light Radiation.
Institute of General Semantics
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You know where it is?
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You prefer I pass through
the North Zone or the South?
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What's the difference?
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There's snow in the North
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and sun in the South
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Anyway, it's my journey
to the end of the night
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So, it doesn't matter
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It was my first night
in Alphaville
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but it seemed to me that
centuries had passed
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I'm very well, thank you
so very much
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Miss Natasha Von Braun
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- Which section?
- Programming and memory
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The Central Memory...
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...is thus named...
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...because of
the primordial role...
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...that it plays...
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...in the logic-organization
within Alpha 60
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But no one has lived
in the past...
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...and no one will live
in the future
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The present is the form
of all life
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This quality...
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...cannot be changed by any means
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Time is like a circle...
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...which turns endlessly
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The descending arc is the past
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The arc that climbs
is the future
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Everything has been said...
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...provided words do not change
their meanings...
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...and meanings their words
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Is it not obvious that someone...
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00:34:03,152 --> 00:34:05,979
...who customarily lives...
260
00:34:07,282 --> 00:34:10,767
...in a state of suffering...
261
00:34:12,277 --> 00:34:17,795
...requires a different sort
of religion...
262
00:34:19,537 --> 00:34:26,486
...from a person habitually
in a state of well-being?
263
00:34:28,429 --> 00:34:32,152
Before us, nothing existed here
264
00:34:33,290 --> 00:34:34,811
No one
265
00:34:36,688 --> 00:34:39,810
We are totally alone here
266
00:34:41,050 --> 00:34:47,601
We are unique,
dreadfully unique
267
00:34:49,641 --> 00:34:53,071
The meaning of words...
268
00:34:53,837 --> 00:34:58,595
...and of expressions,
is no longer grasped
269
00:35:01,231 --> 00:35:07,317
An isolated word, or a detail
of a design...
270
00:35:08,990 --> 00:35:11,113
...can be understood
271
00:35:12,187 --> 00:35:18,239
But the meaning
of the whole escapes
272
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:25,273
Once we know the number one...
273
00:35:25,741 --> 00:35:29,670
...we believe that we know
the number two...
274
00:35:30,737 --> 00:35:36,255
...because one plus one
equals two
275
00:35:38,495 --> 00:35:42,254
We forget that first...
276
00:35:42,459 --> 00:35:48,386
...we must know
the meaning of plus
277
00:35:48,553 --> 00:35:49,677
I'm going
278
00:35:50,218 --> 00:35:53,941
The acts of men...
279
00:35:55,546 --> 00:35:57,510
...carried over...
280
00:35:57,877 --> 00:35:59,932
...from past centuries...
281
00:36:00,641 --> 00:36:03,128
...will gradually...
282
00:36:03,972 --> 00:36:05,731
...destroy them...
283
00:36:06,736 --> 00:36:07,893
...logically...
284
00:36:10,066 --> 00:36:13,756
I, Alpha 60...
285
00:36:15,394 --> 00:36:21,412
...am merely the logical means
of this destruction
286
00:36:38,573 --> 00:36:39,969
Good night, Comrade
287
00:36:44,999 --> 00:36:46,691
I thought I'd never
see you again
288
00:36:49,662 --> 00:36:51,989
- Shall we go?
- I'll get the keys
289
00:36:56,788 --> 00:37:00,217
I left because I couldn't
understand a word he was saying
290
00:37:02,683 --> 00:37:04,374
But it's very simple
291
00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:08,371
We learnt this evening
292
00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:10,934
that death and life
293
00:37:11,607 --> 00:37:14,196
are found within
the same circle
294
00:37:21,998 --> 00:37:25,552
- Are you afraid of death?
- Of course not. Why?
295
00:37:28,525 --> 00:37:31,750
We took the tangent
to the center districts
296
00:37:33,354 --> 00:37:36,579
Traffic bulletins on the radio...
297
00:37:37,550 --> 00:37:40,207
...as Natasha spoke to me
in her pretty sphinx voice
298
00:37:41,945 --> 00:37:43,739
Pretty sphinx...
299
00:37:51,736 --> 00:37:54,756
Foreign ambassadors
usually attend
300
00:37:55,399 --> 00:37:58,590
or delegations
from the districts
301
00:37:59,596 --> 00:38:01,890
Why does everyone
look so sad, somber?
302
00:38:03,126 --> 00:38:05,022
You ask too many questions
303
00:38:06,223 --> 00:38:08,119
Because they lack electricity
304
00:38:12,783 --> 00:38:14,509
The essence...
305
00:38:15,181 --> 00:38:19,200
...of the so-called
capitalist world...
306
00:38:20,809 --> 00:38:24,067
...or the communist world...
307
00:38:25,171 --> 00:38:29,623
...is not an evil volition...
308
00:38:30,233 --> 00:38:36,887
...to subject their people
by the power of indoctrination...
309
00:38:38,393 --> 00:38:40,856
...or the power of finance...
310
00:38:41,856 --> 00:38:43,514
...but simply...
311
00:38:44,353 --> 00:38:46,510
...the natural ambition...
312
00:38:47,384 --> 00:38:49,405
...of any organization...
313
00:38:50,215 --> 00:38:53,666
...to plan all its actions
314
00:38:54,811 --> 00:38:57,433
In a word, to minimize
unknown quantities
315
00:38:57,674 --> 00:39:01,966
This dump of yours isn't
Alphaville, it's Zeroville
316
00:39:24,315 --> 00:39:27,403
- What are we going to see?
- I don't know, light and sound
317
00:39:40,101 --> 00:39:42,621
- Where is everyone?
- I believe; it's already begun
318
00:39:53,921 --> 00:39:55,385
Hurry. We're late
319
00:40:16,367 --> 00:40:17,559
It's already begun
320
00:40:59,459 --> 00:41:00,980
Don't they electrocute them
any more?
321
00:41:01,158 --> 00:41:04,917
Darling, you know the provisions
of 17th Plan took a plunge
322
00:41:05,220 --> 00:41:06,446
You see, I told you so
323
00:41:29,730 --> 00:41:30,820
Stay here
324
00:41:35,026 --> 00:41:37,183
- Introduce me.
- I told you to stay there
325
00:41:38,589 --> 00:41:41,814
we're with very important people
326
00:41:42,452 --> 00:41:44,439
- Can I take a photo?
- I'll ask
327
00:41:50,411 --> 00:41:51,307
Yes
328
00:42:19,184 --> 00:42:21,739
- What have they done?
- They've been condemned
329
00:42:25,478 --> 00:42:26,772
Only men?
330
00:42:27,676 --> 00:42:31,502
There's usually a ratio of
fifty men executed to one woman
331
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,703
But what have they done?
332
00:42:34,403 --> 00:42:36,491
They behaved illogically
333
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,690
Isn't that a crime
in the Outlands?
334
00:42:43,794 --> 00:42:48,518
Say, I know him.
He wept when his wife died
335
00:42:50,987 --> 00:42:52,645
He was condemned for that?
336
00:42:54,684 --> 00:42:55,944
Evidently
337
00:42:56,416 --> 00:42:57,710
We must advance to live
338
00:42:58,247 --> 00:43:01,176
Aim straight for those you love
339
00:43:40,374 --> 00:43:41,929
Listen to me, normals
340
00:43:42,338 --> 00:43:45,097
We see the truth
you no longer see
341
00:43:45,435 --> 00:43:49,387
The truth is that the essence
of man is love and faith
342
00:43:50,265 --> 00:43:54,250
courage, tenderness,
generosity and sacrifice
343
00:43:55,027 --> 00:43:57,854
The rest is the obstacle created
344
00:43:58,024 --> 00:44:00,113
by the progress
of your blind ignorance
345
00:44:05,583 --> 00:44:06,741
One day...
346
00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:10,305
One day...
347
00:44:54,637 --> 00:44:58,429
Sorry, Professor,
but I must speak with you
348
00:44:59,266 --> 00:45:01,253
I never speak to journalists
349
00:45:02,563 --> 00:45:07,582
I'm not a journalist
Can't we talk somewhere quieter?
350
00:45:08,924 --> 00:45:12,546
- Goodbye, sir.
- Mr. Nosferatu
351
00:45:12,953 --> 00:45:14,611
That man no longer exists
352
00:45:43,491 --> 00:45:44,887
Are you crying?
353
00:45:46,288 --> 00:45:48,219
No, because it's forbidden
354
00:46:24,153 --> 00:46:26,309
Occupied
355
00:46:28,016 --> 00:46:29,640
Occupied
356
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,361
Free
357
00:46:42,736 --> 00:46:45,926
Sit there and answer when
you're spoken to
358
00:46:47,764 --> 00:46:49,319
I haven't done anything
359
00:46:50,128 --> 00:46:51,820
Newcomers must be interrogated
360
00:46:51,993 --> 00:46:54,321
Alpha 5
361
00:46:57,089 --> 00:46:59,314
What is your name?
362
00:47:06,713 --> 00:47:08,540
Where were you born?
363
00:47:09,977 --> 00:47:11,565
Nueva York
364
00:47:12,974 --> 00:47:14,995
How old are you?
365
00:47:16,403 --> 00:47:18,163
I don't know... 45
366
00:47:18,801 --> 00:47:22,423
What make is your car?
367
00:47:26,361 --> 00:47:29,619
What do you love above all?
368
00:47:30,556 --> 00:47:32,453
Gold and women
369
00:47:34,153 --> 00:47:38,741
What are you doing in Alphaville?
370
00:47:39,748 --> 00:47:41,837
An article for Figaro-Pravda
371
00:47:42,712 --> 00:47:46,106
You seem afraid
372
00:47:47,674 --> 00:47:50,728
I'm not afraid...
not the way you think
373
00:47:51,470 --> 00:47:53,933
Anyway, you wouldn't understand
374
00:47:55,933 --> 00:48:00,089
Rest assured that my decisions...
375
00:48:00,528 --> 00:48:04,547
...always have in view...
376
00:48:05,623 --> 00:48:07,814
...the ultimate good
377
00:48:11,618 --> 00:48:13,411
I shall now...
378
00:48:14,082 --> 00:48:18,067
...ask you some test questions...
379
00:48:18,711 --> 00:48:20,902
...as a security measure
380
00:48:21,942 --> 00:48:23,565
No, go ahead
381
00:48:23,740 --> 00:48:27,464
You have come from the Outlands
382
00:48:28,235 --> 00:48:30,699
What were your feelings...
383
00:48:30,866 --> 00:48:36,192
...when you passed through
galactic space?
384
00:48:37,194 --> 00:48:40,021
The silence of infinite space
385
00:48:40,191 --> 00:48:41,519
appalled me
386
00:48:44,487 --> 00:48:47,042
What is the privilege
of the dead?
387
00:48:49,516 --> 00:48:51,208
To die no more
388
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,707
Do you know what illuminates
the night?
389
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,104
Poetry
390
00:49:04,701 --> 00:49:06,756
What is your religion?
391
00:49:08,930 --> 00:49:12,381
I believe in the inspirations
of conscience
392
00:49:12,861 --> 00:49:17,255
Do you make any distinction...
393
00:49:18,155 --> 00:49:22,277
...between the mysterious
principles...
394
00:49:23,350 --> 00:49:25,939
...of knowledge...
395
00:49:26,514 --> 00:49:30,273
...and those of love?
396
00:49:31,109 --> 00:49:35,094
In my opinion, in love
there is no mystery
397
00:49:35,439 --> 00:49:39,061
You are not telling the truth
398
00:49:40,001 --> 00:49:41,091
I don't understand
399
00:49:42,199 --> 00:49:46,685
You are hiding certain things
400
00:49:47,993 --> 00:49:50,616
I admit I might have
reasons to lie
401
00:49:50,791 --> 00:49:54,844
but how can you differentiate
between lies and truth?
402
00:49:56,020 --> 00:49:59,971
You are hiding certain things...
403
00:50:01,214 --> 00:50:07,368
...but I do not know yet
what they are
404
00:50:09,473 --> 00:50:15,661
For the time being, you are free
405
00:50:17,765 --> 00:50:22,557
I should like you to visit...
406
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:27,921
...the Control Complex
407
00:50:31,886 --> 00:50:33,611
Come with me, Mr. Johnson
408
00:50:46,471 --> 00:50:49,957
- Where are we going?
- To the Chief Engineer
409
00:51:25,235 --> 00:51:26,927
Ah, the day breaks
410
00:51:42,485 --> 00:51:44,074
Sit down, Mr. Johnson
411
00:51:47,980 --> 00:51:50,171
A momentous occasion
412
00:51:50,744 --> 00:51:54,037
Yes, we spent three years looking
for Grand Omega Minus
413
00:52:01,834 --> 00:52:03,695
Well, Mr. Johnson...
414
00:52:07,063 --> 00:52:08,788
How do you find Alphaville?
415
00:52:09,493 --> 00:52:12,184
Not bad, if I knew where I was
416
00:52:12,856 --> 00:52:17,148
You are in the center of
Alphaville, inside Alpha 60
417
00:52:21,282 --> 00:52:26,108
The task of Alpha 60
is to calculate and project
418
00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:31,404
the results which Alphaville
will subsequently enjoy
419
00:52:33,338 --> 00:52:34,427
Why?
420
00:52:35,269 --> 00:52:38,698
No one ever says "why";
one says "because"
421
00:52:40,797 --> 00:52:44,556
In the life of individuals,
as in the life of nations
422
00:52:44,726 --> 00:52:47,588
all is linked,
all is consequence
423
00:52:50,255 --> 00:52:54,013
That's the famous theory of
Professor Leonard Nosferatu
424
00:52:54,484 --> 00:52:57,448
Leonard Nosferatu no longer
exists, Mr. Johnson
425
00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:03,939
The Outlands expelled him in 1964
426
00:53:05,174 --> 00:53:08,001
Today there is only
Professor Von Braun
427
00:53:08,804 --> 00:53:13,629
I remember. He was sent
to a village in the desert
428
00:53:13,966 --> 00:53:16,327
to perfect his invention
429
00:53:17,329 --> 00:53:19,293
He was exiled, you mean
430
00:53:19,927 --> 00:53:25,377
Now the Outlands wring their hands,
wishing him back
431
00:53:25,954 --> 00:53:31,575
They flood us with spies. Perhaps
you are a spy, Mr. Johnson
432
00:53:32,415 --> 00:53:35,605
You know I'm only a free man
433
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,094
A meaningless reply.
We know nothing
434
00:53:45,502 --> 00:53:50,089
We record, calculate,
draw conclusions
435
00:53:53,462 --> 00:53:56,947
An hour ago,
one of Alpha 60's
436
00:53:57,125 --> 00:54:00,610
1.4 billion nerve centres
questioned you
437
00:54:00,789 --> 00:54:04,478
Your replies were difficult and
sometimes impossible to codify
438
00:54:04,751 --> 00:54:07,805
We deduce an above-average
intelligence
439
00:54:08,481 --> 00:54:13,669
We are sometimes in mortal need
of superior intelligences
440
00:54:13,842 --> 00:54:16,771
At other times we have a no less
mortal distrust of them
441
00:54:18,705 --> 00:54:20,794
So what will you do with me?
442
00:54:21,435 --> 00:54:25,057
For the moment, we're ordered
to show you Alpha 60
443
00:54:25,232 --> 00:54:28,218
Who ordered you?
Professor Von Braun?
444
00:54:29,161 --> 00:54:30,955
Absolutely not
445
00:54:31,892 --> 00:54:34,287
An order is a logical conclusion
446
00:54:35,722 --> 00:54:39,945
One must not be afraid of logic.
Simply that. Period
447
00:54:42,649 --> 00:54:47,044
The circuit elements...
of 183 Omega Minus... malfunction
448
00:54:47,578 --> 00:54:50,064
Calculating or memory elements?
449
00:54:50,341 --> 00:54:52,305
Memory
450
00:54:54,172 --> 00:54:56,795
Professors Eckel and Jeckel
451
00:54:57,002 --> 00:54:58,523
I'm very well, thank you,
pleased to meet you
452
00:54:58,700 --> 00:54:59,063
Me too
453
00:55:02,630 --> 00:55:06,956
I'd like to know what
Grand Omega Minus is
454
00:55:07,259 --> 00:55:10,654
Our 17th electricity plan
is inadequate
455
00:55:11,754 --> 00:55:15,683
Sooner or later, the Outlands
will declare war on us
456
00:55:16,583 --> 00:55:19,103
Therefore, we decided
to invade them
457
00:55:19,281 --> 00:55:22,301
Directed by Professor Von Braun,
Omega Minus will be
458
00:55:22,478 --> 00:55:24,771
victorious over anti-matter
459
00:55:24,942 --> 00:55:26,406
I see, it's ideal
460
00:55:27,706 --> 00:55:30,170
We can perhaps use men like you
461
00:55:30,337 --> 00:55:33,630
to tell us the weak points
of the Outlands
462
00:55:36,198 --> 00:55:41,716
Your tendency to dwell
in the past...
463
00:55:42,892 --> 00:55:45,015
...could be useful to us
464
00:55:48,819 --> 00:55:53,406
We send those properly brain-washed
to provoke the other galaxies
465
00:55:53,582 --> 00:55:58,340
the strikes, revolutions,
family rows, student revolts
466
00:55:58,511 --> 00:56:00,736
That's us: Grand Omega Minus
467
00:56:00,942 --> 00:56:03,734
- Where now?
- The invisible part of Alpha 60
468
00:56:09,101 --> 00:56:13,359
You think more
of what has been...
469
00:56:14,495 --> 00:56:16,652
...than of what will be
470
00:56:22,122 --> 00:56:23,813
It's old, your camera
471
00:56:23,986 --> 00:56:25,450
The technical...
I don't believe in it
472
00:56:25,618 --> 00:56:26,912
Yes, of course
473
00:56:27,916 --> 00:56:32,810
Jeckel asked why I shot
the individual in my bathroom...
474
00:56:33,577 --> 00:56:36,541
...when the whole thing
was just a psycho-test
475
00:56:37,340 --> 00:56:42,767
I replied, because I'm too old
to argue. So I shoot
476
00:56:43,834 --> 00:56:46,389
It's my only weapon
against fatality
477
00:56:51,627 --> 00:56:55,579
- What's this?
- Central Interrogation Station
478
00:56:55,856 --> 00:56:58,547
Here Alpha 60 sets itself problems
479
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:02,047
The forms and references used
by Alpha 60
480
00:57:02,217 --> 00:57:03,840
are too complex
for human understanding
481
00:57:04,448 --> 00:57:06,276
What sort of problems?
482
00:57:06,979 --> 00:57:09,704
Train and airplane departures...
movement of people and goods
483
00:57:09,877 --> 00:57:13,306
electricity distribution...
crime suppression... war operations
484
00:57:14,905 --> 00:57:21,264
Element Seven, Malfunction
485
00:57:52,570 --> 00:57:53,898
What's happening?
486
00:57:55,467 --> 00:57:57,828
It's war with the Outlands
487
00:57:59,563 --> 00:58:01,857
A simple instruction...
488
00:58:03,059 --> 00:58:06,250
...is usually insufficient...
489
00:58:07,489 --> 00:58:09,578
...to put into...
490
00:58:09,753 --> 00:58:13,046
...execution...
491
00:58:14,249 --> 00:58:19,199
...a task set by Alpha 60
492
00:58:22,241 --> 00:58:24,296
Do not think...
493
00:58:24,473 --> 00:58:26,266
...that it is I...
494
00:58:26,438 --> 00:58:30,094
...who initiate
this destruction...
495
00:58:31,167 --> 00:58:35,061
...nor the scientists...
496
00:58:35,895 --> 00:58:39,416
...who have accepted my plan
497
00:58:41,123 --> 00:58:43,916
Ordinary men...
498
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:46,843
...are unworthy...
499
00:58:47,750 --> 00:58:50,872
...of the positions they hold...
500
00:58:51,214 --> 00:58:53,235
...in the world
501
00:58:53,978 --> 00:58:57,430
Analysis of their past...
502
00:58:57,608 --> 00:59:03,059
...automatically leads one...
503
00:59:04,069 --> 00:59:06,430
...to this conclusion
504
00:59:08,065 --> 00:59:10,052
Therefore...
505
00:59:10,629 --> 00:59:12,786
...they must be destroyed
506
00:59:14,293 --> 00:59:18,983
That is to say: transformed
507
00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:26,172
I don't need anyone
to draw it for me
508
00:59:27,913 --> 00:59:30,070
During these years,
under the direction...
509
00:59:30,211 --> 00:59:33,140
...of Von Braun
and his assistants...
510
00:59:33,308 --> 00:59:36,499
...Alphaville had developed
by leaps and bounds...
511
00:59:37,038 --> 00:59:41,659
...guided by electronic brains
that developed themselves...
512
00:59:41,833 --> 00:59:44,853
...by conceiving problems...
513
00:59:45,030 --> 00:59:49,015
...that the human imagination
couldn't grasp
514
00:59:49,792 --> 00:59:53,515
Foreigners were gradually
assimilated...
515
00:59:53,688 --> 00:59:57,639
...especially the Swedes,
Germans and Americans
516
00:59:58,451 --> 01:00:03,310
The others, the unassimilatables
were purely and simply killed
517
01:00:04,478 --> 01:00:07,135
I walked through the threaten
of executions
518
01:00:07,775 --> 01:00:11,465
Usually, we would seat them
in a room...
519
01:00:11,638 --> 01:00:17,066
...and electrocute them in their
chairs as they watched a show
520
01:00:17,533 --> 01:00:21,257
Then we'd dump them into
huge rubbish bins...
521
01:00:21,429 --> 01:00:24,188
...and the theater was ready
for the next batch
522
01:00:24,793 --> 01:00:28,222
If an individual showed hope
of reclamation...
523
01:00:28,722 --> 01:00:33,343
...he was sent to a chronic
illness hospital where...
524
01:00:33,518 --> 01:00:38,809
...mechanical and propagandistic
treatments soon cured him
525
01:00:40,212 --> 01:00:42,641
I felt that my existence here...
526
01:00:42,809 --> 01:00:47,203
...was becoming a distorted,
twilight memory...
527
01:00:47,405 --> 01:00:50,163
...and without a doubt,
a terrible destiny
528
01:00:51,035 --> 01:00:55,463
I was left only one solution
529
01:00:58,594 --> 01:01:01,114
It would not be logical...
530
01:01:01,990 --> 01:01:03,387
...to prevent...
531
01:01:04,155 --> 01:01:07,516
...superior beings...
532
01:01:09,083 --> 01:01:11,138
...from attacking...
533
01:01:11,315 --> 01:01:14,278
...the other galaxies
534
01:01:33,228 --> 01:01:34,692
344
535
01:01:39,256 --> 01:01:40,811
Put in one token
536
01:01:41,354 --> 01:01:42,613
Thank you
537
01:01:51,843 --> 01:01:52,933
Going up, sir?
538
01:01:53,908 --> 01:01:56,463
- No, I'll shine my shoes.
- Please, sir
539
01:02:20,983 --> 01:02:23,775
- This man has the key.
- This way, sir
540
01:02:49,556 --> 01:02:51,180
You're tired, sir?
541
01:02:54,617 --> 01:02:56,206
You'd like to sleep, sir?
542
01:02:58,613 --> 01:03:01,804
Yes, to sleep:
perchance to dream
543
01:03:05,175 --> 01:03:06,799
What are you exactly?
544
01:03:10,203 --> 01:03:12,689
I'm a seductress, third class
545
01:03:16,663 --> 01:03:18,957
Has your colleague gone?
546
01:03:22,757 --> 01:03:24,245
Who? Beatrice?
547
01:03:24,623 --> 01:03:27,814
I don't know;
a blonde with long legs
548
01:03:29,651 --> 01:03:32,171
She's working
in the peripheral flats
549
01:03:34,380 --> 01:03:36,435
We're only replacements
550
01:03:38,209 --> 01:03:41,002
Ever heard of the Outlands?
551
01:03:45,103 --> 01:03:46,227
Never
552
01:03:51,964 --> 01:03:53,485
- Get out of here!
- Why?
553
01:03:56,459 --> 01:03:59,944
If anyone asks,
say you don't know
554
01:04:01,821 --> 01:04:03,876
I'm very well,
thank you so very much
555
01:04:26,964 --> 01:04:29,927
If it isn't the little princess
556
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:34,945
I was forbidden to come,
but I wanted to see you again
557
01:04:35,456 --> 01:04:36,478
Not me!
558
01:04:37,820 --> 01:04:40,148
Since you're here,
order breakfast for me
559
01:04:40,451 --> 01:04:41,938
Yes, sir
560
01:04:43,815 --> 01:04:46,835
Pardon, I'm very well,
thank you so very much
561
01:04:47,012 --> 01:04:48,340
Me too
562
01:04:53,639 --> 01:04:55,297
Bow your head
563
01:05:02,497 --> 01:05:03,859
What is it?
564
01:05:04,429 --> 01:05:06,790
Nothing. Just a thought
565
01:05:08,425 --> 01:05:10,117
What about my breakfast?
566
01:05:15,218 --> 01:05:17,114
I want to tele-order breakfast
567
01:05:17,283 --> 01:05:18,508
What is your number?
568
01:05:18,682 --> 01:05:20,044
You have a number?
569
01:05:20,447 --> 01:05:23,807
They didn't give me one
at Alpha 60
570
01:05:24,143 --> 01:05:27,231
Not your control number,
your room number
571
01:05:27,473 --> 01:05:28,937
344
572
01:05:35,300 --> 01:05:36,855
Ever heard of this book?
573
01:05:38,729 --> 01:05:41,023
"The Capital of Pain"
574
01:05:43,625 --> 01:05:45,452
Some words are underlined
575
01:05:54,781 --> 01:05:58,141
We live in the void
of metamorphoses
576
01:06:00,010 --> 01:06:03,268
But the echo that runs
throughout the day...
577
01:06:04,539 --> 01:06:08,490
...that echo beyond time,
anguish or caress...
578
01:06:10,267 --> 01:06:13,627
Are we near to our conscience,
or far from it?
579
01:06:18,825 --> 01:06:21,016
These are words
I don't understand
580
01:06:24,053 --> 01:06:25,779
Conscience...
581
01:06:30,814 --> 01:06:34,038
And this:
death in conversation
582
01:06:39,639 --> 01:06:40,864
And this?
583
01:06:43,035 --> 01:06:47,395
Your eyes have returned
from a despotic land...
584
01:06:49,995 --> 01:06:53,254
...where no one has known
the meaning of a glance
585
01:06:54,858 --> 01:06:57,481
You've really no idea
what this is?
586
01:06:57,921 --> 01:06:59,647
It reminds me of something
587
01:07:02,117 --> 01:07:03,581
I don't know what
588
01:07:03,749 --> 01:07:05,270
Naked truth
589
01:07:05,447 --> 01:07:07,207
I know it well
590
01:07:07,379 --> 01:07:09,434
Despair has no wings,
nor does love
591
01:07:09,610 --> 01:07:11,541
No face, they don't speak
592
01:07:11,708 --> 01:07:13,638
I don't look at them,
I don't speak to them
593
01:07:13,773 --> 01:07:15,703
But I am as alive
as my love and despair...
594
01:07:16,571 --> 01:07:19,557
And this:
Dying is not dying
595
01:07:20,667 --> 01:07:23,687
And this:
The beguiler beguiler
596
01:07:24,463 --> 01:07:26,983
This:
Men who change
597
01:07:27,260 --> 01:07:30,780
Never heard of secret messages,
Miss Von Braun?
598
01:07:31,223 --> 01:07:32,915
A secret message?
599
01:07:33,621 --> 01:07:36,084
Don't you know what a secret is?
600
01:07:36,251 --> 01:07:41,111
Yes. Secrets of planning,
atomic secrets, secrets of memory
601
01:07:42,978 --> 01:07:46,135
Now what are you looking for?
This town is driving me nuts!
602
01:07:46,509 --> 01:07:49,199
I'm looking for a Bible,
to see if it's in it
603
01:07:50,305 --> 01:07:53,632
Are you a complete idiot? The word
I'm looking for, obviously...
604
01:07:54,901 --> 01:07:59,193
Where is it? There's always
one for every room
605
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:04,890
I'm becoming afraid
606
01:08:05,957 --> 01:08:09,647
Since you've come, I no longer
understand what is happening
607
01:08:12,418 --> 01:08:15,041
Me, I think I'm beginning
to understand
608
01:08:15,681 --> 01:08:16,906
Here it is
609
01:08:20,344 --> 01:08:24,704
"Conscience"... it's not in it
610
01:08:24,873 --> 01:08:26,235
I'm very well, thank you
611
01:08:36,028 --> 01:08:37,323
It's no longer there.
612
01:08:41,491 --> 01:08:43,784
So no one here
613
01:08:44,221 --> 01:08:49,149
knows the meaning of the word
conscience any more
614
01:08:51,481 --> 01:08:52,411
Too bad
615
01:08:54,611 --> 01:08:55,803
1 sugar or 2?
616
01:08:56,609 --> 01:08:57,767
2
617
01:09:06,167 --> 01:09:09,062
That's not a Bible,
it's a dictionary
618
01:09:12,228 --> 01:09:15,282
Isn't it the same
in the Outlands, Mr. Johnson?
619
01:09:15,524 --> 01:09:18,352
Answer me now, what's it for?
620
01:09:19,921 --> 01:09:25,939
Nearly every day words disappear,
because they are forbidden
621
01:09:28,046 --> 01:09:33,940
They are replaced by new words
expressing new ideas
622
01:09:36,539 --> 01:09:39,831
In the last two
or three months
623
01:09:40,368 --> 01:09:43,297
some words I was
very fond of disappeared
624
01:09:43,665 --> 01:09:46,594
Which words? I'm interested
625
01:09:47,661 --> 01:09:50,386
Redbreast, weeping
626
01:09:51,957 --> 01:09:53,545
autumn light
627
01:09:55,087 --> 01:09:57,052
tenderness too
628
01:10:01,415 --> 01:10:04,038
When I'm with you I'm afraid
629
01:10:06,942 --> 01:10:10,962
They ordered me
not to see you again
630
01:10:12,071 --> 01:10:15,727
Who? The Alpha 60 engineers?
631
01:10:22,229 --> 01:10:25,283
- Yes.
- What are you afraid of?
632
01:10:29,122 --> 01:10:32,574
I'm afraid because
I know that word
633
01:10:33,318 --> 01:10:36,077
without ever having seen it
or read it
634
01:10:36,948 --> 01:10:39,537
- Which word?
- Le conscience
635
01:10:40,645 --> 01:10:42,802
La conscience
636
01:10:48,371 --> 01:10:51,528
- You've never been to the Outlands?
- No
637
01:10:52,233 --> 01:10:53,425
Are you sure?
638
01:10:54,099 --> 01:10:55,189
Yes
639
01:10:56,163 --> 01:10:57,422
You're lying
640
01:10:59,426 --> 01:11:01,413
Why are you cross with me?
641
01:11:01,591 --> 01:11:03,851
I believe you mustn't say
"why" but "because"
642
01:11:05,288 --> 01:11:06,514
I said "why"?
643
01:11:08,019 --> 01:11:12,379
And if enemy ears are listening,
they heard you, too
644
01:11:16,810 --> 01:11:22,136
Well, then, I was careless,
because it's forbidden
645
01:11:25,202 --> 01:11:28,131
Perhaps it's all right for you
to use it
646
01:11:32,562 --> 01:11:34,049
When did I say "why"?
647
01:11:34,826 --> 01:11:37,948
Another question first:
where were you born?
648
01:11:39,122 --> 01:11:40,643
Here in Alphaville
649
01:11:41,954 --> 01:11:47,109
Another lie. Perhaps
you don't know, but you're lying
650
01:11:47,847 --> 01:11:50,969
I must know the truth:
where were you born?
651
01:11:53,609 --> 01:11:59,661
Here. I told you
652
01:12:02,201 --> 01:12:05,562
No, in Tokyorama
653
01:12:06,131 --> 01:12:08,821
the Land of the Rising Sun
654
01:12:09,494 --> 01:12:11,152
Go on, say it
655
01:12:12,691 --> 01:12:17,210
In Tokyorama,
in the Land of the Rising Sun
656
01:12:17,719 --> 01:12:21,204
Or in Florence,
perhaps... where
657
01:12:22,848 --> 01:12:25,676
try to remember it
for yourself, Natasha. Where?
658
01:12:25,845 --> 01:12:28,400
Where? I don't know
659
01:12:28,709 --> 01:12:31,831
Where the sky's as blue as
the South Seas
660
01:12:32,672 --> 01:12:37,793
Florence, where the sky's
as blue as the South Seas
661
01:12:38,866 --> 01:12:41,193
Or in Nueva York
662
01:12:46,425 --> 01:12:49,150
Where the winter... Broadway
663
01:12:49,323 --> 01:12:52,444
glitters in the snow
like a fur coat
664
01:12:53,119 --> 01:12:56,344
You see, you do know
the Outlands
665
01:12:56,749 --> 01:13:00,644
Your father was chased
from Nueva York in '64
666
01:13:01,345 --> 01:13:04,399
He brought you here, so you
are not from here
667
01:13:06,241 --> 01:13:08,534
I know what this book is
668
01:13:09,437 --> 01:13:14,297
A man who came with us from
Nueva York, he wrote these books
669
01:13:15,965 --> 01:13:17,861
I don't know what became of him
670
01:13:18,895 --> 01:13:23,221
They live in the forbidden
quarters here; they commit suicide
671
01:13:24,723 --> 01:13:28,980
I know that Alpha 60
uses them sometimes
672
01:13:29,419 --> 01:13:31,575
It controls them.
How come?
673
01:13:31,749 --> 01:13:34,508
Because they write
incomprehensible things
674
01:13:35,279 --> 01:13:40,207
Now I know:
it used to be called poetry
675
01:13:42,473 --> 01:13:46,368
It's believed to be secrets,
but really it's nothing
676
01:13:46,836 --> 01:13:55,057
When Control has an hour or so free
it codifies such stuff
677
01:13:56,094 --> 01:13:58,081
Like everything else,
one never knows
678
01:13:58,257 --> 01:14:00,245
It can always prove useful
679
01:14:00,422 --> 01:14:02,511
Absolutely.
We're highly organized
680
01:14:07,083 --> 01:14:10,103
I'd like to leave with you
for the Outlands
681
01:14:13,111 --> 01:14:14,507
But I'm afraid
682
01:14:15,908 --> 01:14:20,461
Now that I've seen you
I'm no longer normal
683
01:14:23,368 --> 01:14:25,229
When did I say "why"?
684
01:14:26,131 --> 01:14:27,221
Why?
685
01:14:30,827 --> 01:14:34,778
Because... you know very well,
Mr. Johnson
686
01:14:36,122 --> 01:14:37,586
No, I don't
687
01:14:38,952 --> 01:14:42,540
At which moment?
Tell me
688
01:14:42,716 --> 01:14:45,407
Quite often. Last night
in the corridor, for instance
689
01:14:45,579 --> 01:14:47,237
This time you're lying
690
01:14:49,976 --> 01:14:52,837
When I said I was
falling in love with you
691
01:14:53,006 --> 01:14:56,026
In love? What's that?
692
01:15:11,955 --> 01:15:12,920
This
693
01:15:14,552 --> 01:15:18,480
No, I know what that is:
it's sensuality
694
01:15:18,981 --> 01:15:22,808
No, sensuality is a consequence
695
01:15:23,643 --> 01:15:25,471
It cannot exist without love
696
01:15:26,375 --> 01:15:29,270
So what is love, then?
697
01:15:36,964 --> 01:15:39,860
Your voice, your eyes...
698
01:15:40,794 --> 01:15:43,417
...your hands, your lips...
699
01:15:46,955 --> 01:15:49,146
Our silences, our words...
700
01:15:51,883 --> 01:15:54,177
Light that goes...
701
01:15:55,047 --> 01:15:57,102
...light that returns
702
01:15:59,643 --> 01:16:02,630
A single smile between us
703
01:16:04,738 --> 01:16:09,064
In quest of knowledge,
I watched night create day...
704
01:16:10,267 --> 01:16:13,253
...while we seemed unchanged
705
01:16:13,797 --> 01:16:17,226
O beloved of all,
beloved of one alone...
706
01:16:18,125 --> 01:16:21,384
...your mouth silently promised
to be happy
707
01:16:23,753 --> 01:16:29,703
Away, away, says hate;
Closer, closer, says love
708
01:16:34,177 --> 01:16:37,662
A caress leads us from
our infancy
709
01:16:39,673 --> 01:16:42,794
Increasingly I see
the human form...
710
01:16:43,801 --> 01:16:46,288
...as a lovers' dialogue
711
01:16:46,465 --> 01:16:48,293
The heart has but one mouth
712
01:16:49,629 --> 01:16:51,525
Everything by chance
713
01:16:52,427 --> 01:16:55,151
All words without thought
714
01:16:56,256 --> 01:16:58,584
Sentiments adrift
715
01:16:59,420 --> 01:17:01,883
Men roam the city
716
01:17:03,117 --> 01:17:05,274
A glance, a word
717
01:17:06,546 --> 01:17:09,066
Because I love you
718
01:17:10,542 --> 01:17:12,166
Everything moves
719
01:17:14,672 --> 01:17:17,000
We must advance to live
720
01:17:19,035 --> 01:17:23,054
Aim straight ahead
toward those you love
721
01:17:25,695 --> 01:17:30,021
I went toward you,
endlessly toward the light
722
01:17:34,687 --> 01:17:38,207
If you smile, it enfolds me
all the better
723
01:17:41,747 --> 01:17:45,335
The rays of your arms
pierce the mist
724
01:17:46,542 --> 01:17:48,631
Capital of Sorrow
725
01:17:55,467 --> 01:17:58,692
I must know how the chief engineer
will use me
726
01:17:58,864 --> 01:18:01,328
As an inter-galaxy double agent,
I think
727
01:18:01,628 --> 01:18:05,455
- So it's true what Eckel said.
- What?
728
01:18:06,224 --> 01:18:10,312
You send spies to sabotage
the rest of the world
729
01:18:10,786 --> 01:18:13,579
Of course, you learn that
in school
730
01:18:19,811 --> 01:18:21,469
Are you going to betray me?
731
01:18:26,671 --> 01:18:30,657
You can't talk
or don't you want to
732
01:18:36,362 --> 01:18:39,450
Can I communicate with
the Outlands from this hotel?
733
01:18:39,625 --> 01:18:42,453
Just ask for Galaxy Service.
You want me to do it?
734
01:18:42,789 --> 01:18:44,946
The Outlands...
735
01:18:45,121 --> 01:18:47,243
I want to telecommunicate
736
01:18:47,418 --> 01:18:52,902
...telecommunications are
suspended for some days
737
01:18:53,945 --> 01:18:57,998
- What were you going to say?
- An atomic attack on Alphaville
738
01:18:58,641 --> 01:19:02,002
I'll explain later, Princess,
but now let's get out of here
739
01:19:02,171 --> 01:19:04,999
We must find the Professor...
where does he live?
740
01:19:09,930 --> 01:19:12,621
- Come with us!
- Where?
741
01:19:12,795 --> 01:19:14,782
- Residents Control.
- No kidding
742
01:19:15,092 --> 01:19:16,784
When he doubles up, get him
743
01:19:17,856 --> 01:19:20,819
Story 842, Miss
744
01:19:22,818 --> 01:19:26,303
One day a tiny man entered
a North Zone cafe
745
01:19:26,481 --> 01:19:30,274
and said, "I want a cup
of very hot, sweet coffee..."
746
01:19:31,210 --> 01:19:34,332
adding: "I shan't pay,
because I fear no one"
747
01:19:37,204 --> 01:19:38,862
He drank his coffee
748
01:19:43,265 --> 01:19:44,594
He left
749
01:19:46,862 --> 01:19:49,019
He drank his coffee
and didn't pay
750
01:19:49,227 --> 01:19:53,451
The cafe owner said nothing,
he was afraid of a scandal
751
01:19:54,654 --> 01:19:57,379
But when the tiny man repeated
the trick a few times
752
01:19:57,552 --> 01:20:00,606
the cafe owner said:
"I've had it, I'll get a tough guy
753
01:20:00,782 --> 01:20:03,473
to beat up this tiny man
if he comes back"
754
01:20:05,145 --> 01:20:07,836
So, on the fourth day
755
01:20:08,008 --> 01:20:13,300
when the tiny man said, "I want
a cup of very hot, sweet coffee..."
756
01:20:13,471 --> 01:20:16,026
the tough guy goes
to him and says:
757
01:20:16,601 --> 01:20:19,564
"So you're afraid of no one?"
758
01:20:20,098 --> 01:20:22,028
"That's right"
759
01:20:22,196 --> 01:20:24,057
"Well, neither am I"
760
01:20:24,526 --> 01:20:26,252
"Well", says the tiny man,
"Make that two cups of coffee
761
01:20:26,424 --> 01:20:28,684
very hot and sweet."
762
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:34,808
Meet you outside
Residents Control
763
01:20:35,017 --> 01:20:37,503
You'll stay here, Miss Von Braun
764
01:20:52,534 --> 01:20:56,257
Last night you lied
765
01:20:56,796 --> 01:21:00,589
You organized Dickson's death.
Why?
766
01:21:00,925 --> 01:21:05,149
Your name may be spelled...
767
01:21:05,321 --> 01:21:08,148
...lvan Johnson...
768
01:21:09,650 --> 01:21:14,238
...but it is pronounced
Lemmy Caution...
769
01:21:15,745 --> 01:21:17,709
...secret agent...
770
01:21:18,442 --> 01:21:24,131
...number zero zero three...
771
01:21:24,970 --> 01:21:27,160
...of the Outlands
772
01:21:29,465 --> 01:21:35,619
You are a menace
to the security of Alphaville
773
01:21:36,159 --> 01:21:38,714
I refuse to become
what you call normal
774
01:21:41,787 --> 01:21:45,546
Those you call mutants...
775
01:21:46,682 --> 01:21:51,111
...form a race superior...
776
01:21:51,944 --> 01:21:54,067
...to ordinary men...
777
01:21:54,508 --> 01:21:57,596
...whom we have almost eliminated
778
01:21:58,537 --> 01:22:00,058
Unthinkable
779
01:22:00,636 --> 01:22:02,691
An entire race cannot
be destroyed
780
01:22:03,133 --> 01:22:04,859
I shall calculate...
781
01:22:05,632 --> 01:22:07,925
...so that failure...
782
01:22:08,096 --> 01:22:10,083
...is impossible
783
01:22:11,425 --> 01:22:13,911
I shall fight so that failure
is possible
784
01:22:18,219 --> 01:22:22,511
Everything that I project
shall be accomplished
785
01:22:24,114 --> 01:22:27,134
Don't be so sure;
I have a secret, too
786
01:22:29,176 --> 01:22:35,228
What is your secret?
Tell me, Mr. Caution
787
01:22:38,034 --> 01:22:41,928
Something which never changes,
day or night
788
01:22:42,929 --> 01:22:47,619
The past represents its future,
it advances in a straight line
789
01:22:47,792 --> 01:22:51,118
yet it ends by coming
full circle
790
01:22:51,487 --> 01:22:54,315
I cannot trace it
791
01:22:54,485 --> 01:22:55,881
I won't tell you
792
01:22:56,050 --> 01:22:58,741
Several of my circuits...
793
01:22:58,914 --> 01:23:03,104
...are looking for the solution
to your riddle
794
01:23:04,542 --> 01:23:06,335
I will find it
795
01:23:06,940 --> 01:23:11,198
If you find it, you will
destroy yourself simultaneously
796
01:23:11,936 --> 01:23:15,490
because you will become
my kin, my brother
797
01:23:16,331 --> 01:23:21,123
Those who are not born,
do not weep...
798
01:23:22,492 --> 01:23:24,752
...and do not regret
799
01:23:25,589 --> 01:23:31,483
Thus it is logical
to condemn you to death
800
01:23:32,882 --> 01:23:35,970
Fuck yourself with your logic
801
01:23:36,445 --> 01:23:39,771
My judgement is just...
802
01:23:41,008 --> 01:23:46,368
...and I am working for the
universal good
803
01:23:47,768 --> 01:23:52,355
If you plan to drive us from
the other galaxies, you'll fail
804
01:23:53,629 --> 01:23:59,284
You will not leave;
the exit is blocked
805
01:23:59,457 --> 01:24:00,547
We'll see
806
01:25:11,988 --> 01:25:14,349
Professor Von Braun - do you
know where he lives?
807
01:25:14,553 --> 01:25:22,774
Central Palace, South Zone,
behind Raw Materials Station
808
01:25:22,945 --> 01:25:24,307
Let's go
809
01:25:33,868 --> 01:25:34,923
Don't budge
810
01:25:38,797 --> 01:25:41,226
That way I'm sure you will
keep your word
811
01:26:46,799 --> 01:26:48,161
Out! Out!
No journalists!
812
01:26:48,431 --> 01:26:52,223
You know "journalist" and "justice"
both begin with the same letter?
813
01:26:52,394 --> 01:26:54,415
Tell your boss
814
01:27:18,768 --> 01:27:21,130
What can I do for you,
Mister Caution?
815
01:27:21,300 --> 01:27:23,956
News travels fast here
816
01:27:24,530 --> 01:27:27,460
Because we're very rapidly
entering Light Civilization
817
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,054
At about 300.000 kilometers
per second
818
01:27:31,823 --> 01:27:35,377
I'm returning to the Outlands.
Come with me
819
01:27:36,519 --> 01:27:38,846
Stay with us, Mister Caution
820
01:27:38,983 --> 01:27:43,468
When the war's over I'll put you
in charge of another galaxy
821
01:27:45,576 --> 01:27:48,199
You will have gold and women
822
01:27:59,298 --> 01:28:04,225
We are mastering a science
so fantastic
823
01:28:04,393 --> 01:28:08,151
that the old American and
Russian control of atomic force
824
01:28:08,322 --> 01:28:11,251
will seem pathetic
825
01:28:11,419 --> 01:28:12,406
I see
826
01:28:13,717 --> 01:28:17,940
You oppose my moral, even
supernatural, sense of vocation
827
01:28:18,113 --> 01:28:22,564
with a simple physical
and mental existence
828
01:28:22,742 --> 01:28:24,968
easily controllable
by technicians
829
01:28:38,660 --> 01:28:40,749
Your ideas are strange,
Mr. Caution
830
01:28:41,391 --> 01:28:43,446
Some years ago,
in the Age of Ideas
831
01:28:43,622 --> 01:28:46,313
yours would have been called
sublime ideas
832
01:28:58,141 --> 01:29:02,297
Look at yourself. Men of your type
will soon be extinct
833
01:29:03,104 --> 01:29:06,362
You'll become something
worse than dead
834
01:29:07,766 --> 01:29:10,127
You'll become a legend,
Mr. Caution
835
01:29:10,697 --> 01:29:12,752
Yes, I'm afraid of death
836
01:29:13,527 --> 01:29:19,148
but for a humble secret agent
that's a fact of life, like whisky
837
01:29:20,321 --> 01:29:22,047
And I've drunk that all my life
838
01:29:27,781 --> 01:29:32,300
You never want to see
the Outlands again, Professor?
839
01:29:32,576 --> 01:29:33,939
Goodbye, Mister Caution
840
01:29:37,837 --> 01:29:40,800
Such people will serve as
terrible examples to those...
841
01:29:40,968 --> 01:29:43,693
...who see the world
as theater...
842
01:29:43,865 --> 01:29:46,329
...when technical power
and its triumph...
843
01:29:46,496 --> 01:29:49,618
...is the only act
in their repertoire
844
01:30:13,538 --> 01:30:15,525
I was running a straight line...
845
01:30:15,701 --> 01:30:18,994
...which, like Dickson's
Greek labyrinth...
846
01:30:20,531 --> 01:30:25,481
...and philosophers were lost,
as a secret agent was too
847
01:30:42,277 --> 01:30:44,740
In many respects...
848
01:30:45,807 --> 01:30:50,757
...your reactions and your
modes of thought...
849
01:30:52,068 --> 01:30:53,691
...differ...
850
01:30:55,132 --> 01:30:58,652
...from present normality
851
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:02,417
The inhabitants of Alphaville
are not normal
852
01:31:03,290 --> 01:31:05,481
They are the product of mutation
853
01:31:06,954 --> 01:31:11,904
Do you accept our proposal?
854
01:31:13,314 --> 01:31:16,675
Answer silently...
855
01:31:17,643 --> 01:31:20,629
...with yes or no
856
01:31:22,005 --> 01:31:24,367
I'll never betray the Outlands
857
01:33:19,428 --> 01:33:21,948
The present is terrifying...
858
01:33:22,093 --> 01:33:27,782
...because it is irreversible,
and because it is of iron
859
01:33:29,618 --> 01:33:35,341
Time is the substance of which
I am made
860
01:34:05,851 --> 01:34:09,836
Time is a river
which carries me along
861
01:34:11,146 --> 01:34:13,043
But I am time
862
01:34:14,144 --> 01:34:18,935
It's a tiger, tearing me apart;
but I'm the tiger
863
01:34:19,239 --> 01:34:22,066
Look at her and me,
there's your answer
864
01:34:22,635 --> 01:34:24,826
We're happiness, and we're
heading towards it
865
01:34:26,165 --> 01:34:30,991
It is our misfortune
that the world is reality
866
01:34:31,793 --> 01:34:33,314
And I...
867
01:34:33,991 --> 01:34:39,214
...it is my misfortune
that I am myself, Alpha 60
868
01:34:57,435 --> 01:34:58,661
Natasha, quick...
869
01:35:05,295 --> 01:35:07,123
...think of the word love
870
01:35:14,653 --> 01:35:15,912
Here
871
01:36:24,986 --> 01:36:29,710
Not all the inhabitants died,
but all were stricken
872
01:36:30,781 --> 01:36:34,301
Those not asphyxiated
by the absence of light...
873
01:36:35,076 --> 01:36:38,903
...circled crazily, like ants
874
01:36:41,404 --> 01:36:44,629
It was 23.15, Oceanic Time...
875
01:36:44,802 --> 01:36:48,991
...when Natasha and I left
Alphaville by the peripheral roads
876
01:36:49,863 --> 01:36:54,620
A night drive across intersidereal
space, and we'd be home
877
01:36:56,557 --> 01:36:58,282
Don't look back
878
01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:02,307
- Do you think they're all dead?
- Not yet
879
01:37:04,183 --> 01:37:11,008
They may recover, and Alphaville
will be happy, like Florence
880
01:37:11,642 --> 01:37:14,901
Like Angouleme-city,
like Tokyorama
881
01:37:16,072 --> 01:37:18,036
You can't go back
882
01:37:22,565 --> 01:37:27,323
- Have I slept for long?
- No, the space of an instant
883
01:37:28,393 --> 01:37:31,220
Where are we?
In the Outlands?
884
01:37:32,523 --> 01:37:33,885
Not yet
885
01:37:36,619 --> 01:37:38,844
You're looking at me
with an odd face
886
01:37:43,846 --> 01:37:46,139
You're waiting for me
to say something
887
01:37:50,239 --> 01:37:51,863
I don't know what to say
888
01:37:53,503 --> 01:37:55,558
They're words I don't know
889
01:37:57,466 --> 01:37:59,555
I wasn't taught them
890
01:38:01,829 --> 01:38:03,157
Help me
891
01:38:04,326 --> 01:38:08,220
Impossible, Princess.
You must get there yourself
892
01:38:08,389 --> 01:38:11,080
Then you'll be saved.
If you don't
893
01:38:11,252 --> 01:38:13,807
you're as lost
as the dead of Alphaville
894
01:38:18,779 --> 01:38:20,038
I
895
01:38:23,042 --> 01:38:24,699
you
896
01:38:29,402 --> 01:38:30,957
love
897
01:38:32,999 --> 01:38:34,588
I love you
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