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A STRANGE CASE
OF LEMMY CAUTION

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Sometimes reality

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can be too complex
to be conveyed by the spoken word.

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Legend remoulds it into a form

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that can be spread
all across the world.

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It was 24.17 Oceanic Time when
I reached the suburbs of Alphaville.

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SILENCE LOGIC
SAFETY PRUDENCE

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- Sir?
- My newspaper reserved me a room.

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- Mr...?
- Ivan Johnson. Figaro-Pravda.

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Room 344.
Have you registered with Civil Control?

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You have to, even if you're only
here for the festival. Room 344.

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Your suitcase, sir?

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Second floor, please.

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Room 344. Sir?

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- Clear off.
- This way, sir.

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Your suitcase, sir.

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Are you tired, sir?

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Would you like to sleep, sir?

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This way, sir.

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If you're tired, you can rest, sir.

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Your room is there, sir.

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The bedroom is through here, sir.

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- What are you up to now?
- I'm just checking there's a Bible.

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- Do you believe?
- Yes, of course.

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I'll put the tranquillisers
in the bathroom.

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I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it.

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- Are you having a bath, sir?
- Yes, I need to think.

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I'll help you, sir.

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Your tie, sir?

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- What is it now?
- I could take a bath with you.

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Look, sweetie,
I'm big enough to find my own ladies.

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Clear off now.

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Talk nicely to the ladies, Mr Johnson.

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Damn it! What now?

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- Don't you fancy this one?
- How about your sister, sir?

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- I'm getting rusty.
- What, sir?

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- What is this? Are you on drugs?
- No, this is normal, sir.

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Everything weird is "normal"
in this damn town! Sit on that chair.

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Her name was Beatrice. She told me
she was a level-three seductress.

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I was struck by the sadness
and hardness in her face.

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Something was definitely awry
in this galaxy's capital.

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Hold that up.

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- Not bad for a Guadalcanal veteran.
- Just what I was thinking.

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Go and try your act on someone else...
because it's not working on me.

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- Mr Johnson?
- What?

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Miss Natacha Von Braun
to see you.

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Just a moment, please.

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I'll be down in five minutes.

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- She's just gone up.
- OK, thanks.

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Got a light?

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I came 6,000 miles to give it to you.

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- My name is Natacha Von Braun.
- Yes, I know.

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How do you know?

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- You are Miss Von Braun?
- Yes, and I'm fine. Don't mention it.

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You're from the Outer Countries,
Mr Johnson?

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Is everything OK here?

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I have orders to be at your service
while you are in Alphaville.

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- Who gave you these orders?
- The authorities of course.

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- Did you come for the festival?
- Which festival?

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The big festival. That's why people
from the Outer Countries generally come.

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- You really should've come earlier.
- Why?

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Because the festival is almost over.
There won't be another for years.

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Is that so?

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Yes, Mr Johnson.

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But this evening there will be
a reception and gala performance.

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It will be huge.

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It's in one of ministry buildings.
I'm going.

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- Come along if you like.
- All right.

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What time? Because...
there's something I must do first.

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- You're going to Civil Control?
- No. What's that?

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Don't forget to go.

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- We can meet after you've been.
- I'll go tomorrow.

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- I'm meeting... a friend.
- I have work to do too.

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I'll leave an address to find me.

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We'll meet there and go together.

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- See you in an hour or two.
- See you later.

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I'll come down with you.

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What are the Outer Countries like?

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- You've never been?
- No.

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When I was a child,
my father used to tell me about them.

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Now it's forbidden to think of them.

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Are you often told
to accompany strangers?

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- It's my job.
- That must be nice sometimes.

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Why?

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No one's ever propositioned you?
No one's fallen in love with you?

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In love? What does that mean?

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- There's something I'd like to know.
- Yes, Mr Johnson?

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- What kind of fool do you take me for?
- Let go of me.

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- Answer me.
- I don't know what you mean.

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Look, princess, I haven't a clue
what you're on about either.

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That's always how it is.
You never understand anything.

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That's always how it is.

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You never understand anything
and in the end, it kills you.

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- Which way are you going?
- 12, Enrico Fermi Street.

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It's just after Boulevard Heisenberg,
near Mathematics Park.

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I have my car, I can give you a lift.
I'll get the keys.

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Don't you want me to proposition you?

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- What?
- You still don't know what I mean?

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Her smile and pointed little teeth

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reminded me of the vampire films they
used to show in old picture houses.

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I am a level-two programmer.

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<i>Natasha is a name from the past.</i>

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Yes, but all we have in life
is the present.

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No one has lived in the past
and no one will live in the future.

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Well, thanks for the lift.

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My pleasure. I'm only doing my job.

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- Is it much further?
- Karl?

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- We have to cross the North zone.
- What's the population of Alphaville?

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Don't forget to go to Civil Control.

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- What do you do for a living?
- I work.

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For a newspaper.

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Is Professor Von Braun your father?
I have to do an article on him.

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- Could you arrange me an interview?
- I don't know... I've never seen him.

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- I'll ask.
- I'll get out now.

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- Here?
- Yes. Love changed my mind.

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You've got the address
of where we're meeting up?

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- Yes. Tell him to stop.
- Karl?

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Telecommunications?

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I'd like to make a call.

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- Galaxy or local call?
- Local call.

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Booth number two.

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- Do you know who this man is?
- Of course, I'm not stupid!

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"At the end of Galata Bridge
is the Red Star..."

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My place, my place!

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"It bears no comparison

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to our splendid
galactic corridors

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glittering with luxury

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and with lights.

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It is merely a vast labyrinth,
tall and narrow..."

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- Is this Red Star Hotel?
- Yes, I'm fine. Don't mention it.

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- Is Mr Dickson here?
- Yes.

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- He's out.
- I'll wait for him.

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- Got any money, sir?
- Clear off!

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Sit down, sir, if you are tired.

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"I wanted to see it again.

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And I saw the tomb
of Duke Montpensier.

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The statue of the prince
was sculpted by Pradier.

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The prince is dressed in

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it is one
of his last masterpieces."

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Henry!

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Henry!

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It's me.

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We've got a lot to talk about.

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- Where is my key!
- My money, Mr Dickson!

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- My key!
- Hi5 key!

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- And a beer.
- And a beer!

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And me?

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Will you hurry up and commit suicide?

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We need your room
for our cousin from the South.

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You're from the Outer Countries,
aren't you?

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Why did he ask
if you were going to commit suicide?

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Quite a few...

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Quite a few people... do it.

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They can't adapt to this place.
It's...

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It's the method invented
by the Chinese

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about 30 years ago in Peking.

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They are masters of dissuasion.

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What about those who can't adapt
and don't commit suicide?

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The others?
They're executed by the authorities.

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They can hide.
But there aren't many left.

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Is Dick Tracy dead?
What about Flash Gordon?

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Why didn't we ever
hear from any of you?

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Forgive me. You know how things are.

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Alpha 60 - what's that?

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The super-computer companies
used years ago.

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- Don't you remember?
- In New York, IBM...

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And Olivetti, General Electric, Tokyo.

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- And?
- Alpha 60 is 150 lights years ahead.

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I see. People have become slaves
to probability.

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Alphaville is their ideal place -
it's a technological society,

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like the ant or termite world.

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- I don't understand.
- Probably about 150 light years ago...

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- 150?
- 150, 100...

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There were artists in the ant world.

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Yes, artists, novelists

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musicians, painters...

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Today, there is nothing.

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Nothing, just like here.

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Did Professor Von Braun see to that?

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He just obeys the orders of logic.

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- Then why didn't you kill him?
- Why?

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Why? What does "why" mean?

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Why?

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- I forget.
- Do you know his daughter Natacha?

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Who is she really?

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He was the man we sent to Los Alamos.

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That wasn't his name.

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That wasn't his name back then!

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Listen, Henry,
let's get out of here together.

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You'll get better.
But first, you must...

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It's my sordid little secret...

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Come in, Madame la Marquise.

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My cloak, 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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Lemmy, conscience,

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conscience make Alpha 60 destroy itself.

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Tenderness, tenderness

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save those who weep.

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Lemmy...

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Yes, Lemmy, yes, that's it.

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14, Ray of Light Avenue.

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Institute of General Semantics.
Do you know it?

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Should I go through
the North or South zone'?

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- What's the difference?
- There's snow in the north.

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And sun in the south.

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I'm journeying into darkness anyhow,
<i>so</i> I really don't care.

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It was my first night in Alphaville.

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But I felt like
I'd been there for centuries.

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I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it.

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- What department?
- Programming and memory.

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The Central Memory
was given its name

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because of
the fundamental role it plays

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in the organisation
of logic in Alpha 60.

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No one has ever lived in the past.

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No one will ever live in the future.

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The present is the form of all life.

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It is a possession

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that no force
can take away from us.

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Time is like a circle

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spinning innately.

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The declining arc is the past.

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And the inclining arc is the future.

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That's all there is to say.

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Unless words change their meanings

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and meanings change their words.

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Doesn't it make sense

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that someone who generally lives

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in a state of suffering

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needs a different sort of religion

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to someone who generally lives

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in a state of well-being?

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Before us, there was nothing here.

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No one.

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We are totally alone here.

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We are unique.

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Wretchedly unique.

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The meaning of words

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and of expressions
is no longer understood.

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An isolated word,
or an isolated detail in a drawing

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can be understood.

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But the meaning of the whole

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is lost.

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Once we know the number one

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we think we know the number two

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because one plus one equals two.

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We forget that first

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we must know the meaning of plus.

250
00:35:46,875 --> 00:35:51,085
The acts of man

251
00:35:52,208 --> 00:35:57,544
through the centuries

252
00:35:57,667 --> 00:36:00,671
will gradually

253
00:36:00,792 --> 00:36:05,673
logically destroy them.

254
00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:11,802
I, Alpha 60,

255
00:36:11,917 --> 00:36:18,584
I am merely the logical means
of this destruction.

256
00:36:33,167 --> 00:36:37,752
- Good evening, comrade.
- Good evening, comrade.

257
00:36:41,542 --> 00:36:44,796
I thought I'd never see you again.

258
00:36:45,958 --> 00:36:49,542
- Shall we go?
- I'll get the keys.

259
00:36:53,333 --> 00:36:58,260
I left because I didn't understand
a word he was saying.

260
00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:04,965
It's very simple.
This evening, we learnt

261
00:37:06,250 --> 00:37:11,086
that life and death
lie within the same circle.

262
00:37:18,917 --> 00:37:23,127
- Are you afraid of death?
- Of course not. Why?

263
00:37:25,375 --> 00:37:30,085
We took the tangent
to the central area.

264
00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:34,008
While the radio
spouted traffic news

265
00:37:34,125 --> 00:37:38,801
Natacha talked to me
with the voice of a pretty sphinx.

266
00:37:38,917 --> 00:37:43,002
Pretty sphinx...

267
00:37:48,333 --> 00:37:52,463
Usually, there are
foreign ambassadors there.

268
00:37:52,583 --> 00:37:56,133
Or neighbourhood delegations.

269
00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:59,800
Why does everyone look
so sad and miserable?

270
00:37:59,917 --> 00:38:03,251
You ask too many questions.

271
00:38:03,375 --> 00:38:06,754
Because there is
an electricity shortage.

272
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:17,500
Whether it be
in the so-called capitalist world

273
00:38:17,750 --> 00:38:21,835
or the communist world

274
00:38:21,958 --> 00:38:26,794
there is no evil intent

275
00:38:26,917 --> 00:38:29,841
to subjugate men

276
00:38:29,958 --> 00:38:34,259
through power of indoctrination

277
00:38:35,417 --> 00:38:38,796
or of finance.

278
00:38:38,917 --> 00:38:44,378
There is simply a natural ambition

279
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:50,792
in any organisation
to plan its activities.

280
00:38:50,917 --> 00:38:54,672
In short,
we minimise any unknown factors.

281
00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:59,969
You shouldn't call this dump Alphaville.
It's Zeroville.

282
00:39:21,208 --> 00:39:26,669
- What are we seeing?
- I don't know, a Light and Sound thing.

283
00:39:36,750 --> 00:39:40,584
- Where is everyone?
- It's already started.

284
00:39:51,208 --> 00:39:54,257
Come on, we're late.

285
00:40:13,458 --> 00:40:16,382
It's already started.

286
00:40:56,750 --> 00:41:02,052
- Don't they electrocute them now?
- You know the 17th plan was a flop.

287
00:41:02,167 --> 00:41:05,091
I told you so.

288
00:41:26,667 --> 00:41:29,420
Stay there.

289
00:41:32,333 --> 00:41:35,792
- Introduce me.
- I told you to stay there.

290
00:41:35,917 --> 00:41:39,751
There are very important people here.

291
00:41:39,875 --> 00:41:44,460
- Can I take photos?
- I'll ask.

292
00:41:47,417 --> 00:41:49,670
Yes!

293
00:42:16,083 --> 00:42:21,135
- What have they done?
- They've been condemned to death.

294
00:42:22,792 --> 00:42:24,590
Only men?

295
00:42:24,708 --> 00:42:29,339
There are usually 50 men
to one woman executed.

296
00:42:29,458 --> 00:42:35,090
- But what have they done?
- They behaved illogically.

297
00:42:35,208 --> 00:42:39,463
Isn't that a crime
in the Outer Countries?

298
00:42:41,333 --> 00:42:46,919
I know him.
When his wife died, he wept.

299
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:52,710
- Was he condemned for that?
- Naturally.

300
00:42:53,750 --> 00:42:59,462
One need only advance to live!
Go straight towards all that you love.

301
00:43:37,458 --> 00:43:42,635
Listen to me, normal ones!
We see a truth that you no longer see.

302
00:43:42,750 --> 00:43:47,551
A truth that says
the essence of man is love and faith,

303
00:43:47,667 --> 00:43:52,298
courage and tenderness,
generosity and sacrifice.

304
00:43:52,417 --> 00:43:58,379
Everything else is an obstacle put up
by your blind progress and ignorance!

305
00:44:02,958 --> 00:44:05,586
One day...

306
00:44:51,917 --> 00:44:56,627
Excuse me, Professor
I need to talk to you.

307
00:44:56,750 --> 00:45:02,257
- I don't talk to reporters.
- I'm not a reporter.

308
00:45:02,375 --> 00:45:06,084
Is there somewhere quiet we can talk?

309
00:45:06,208 --> 00:45:10,008
- Good day, sir.
- Mr Nosferatu...

310
00:45:10,125 --> 00:45:13,095
That man no longer exists.

311
00:45:40,583 --> 00:45:46,215
- Are you crying?
- No, because that's forbidden.

312
00:46:20,917 --> 00:46:24,421
Occupied... occupied...

313
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,128
Free.

314
00:46:39,958 --> 00:46:44,885
Sit there
and answer when you're spoken to.

315
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,959
- I've done nothing.
- All newcomers are interviewed.

316
00:46:49,083 --> 00:46:52,758
Alpha 5.

317
00:46:54,458 --> 00:46:57,462
What is your name?

318
00:46:59,667 --> 00:47:02,921
Ivan Johnson.

319
00:47:04,250 --> 00:47:07,379
Where were you born?

320
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,594
In New York.

321
00:47:10,500 --> 00:47:13,834
How old are you?

322
00:47:13,958 --> 00:47:16,256
I don't know, 45?

323
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:19,800
What kind of car do you drive?

324
00:47:19,917 --> 00:47:23,251
Ford Galaxy.

325
00:47:23,375 --> 00:47:28,051
What do you love most of all?

326
00:47:28,167 --> 00:47:30,545
Gold and women.

327
00:47:31,583 --> 00:47:36,965
What are you doing in Alphaville?

328
00:47:37,083 --> 00:47:40,053
An article for Figaro-Pravda.

329
00:47:40,167 --> 00:47:45,003
You seem to be afraid.

330
00:47:45,125 --> 00:47:48,629
I'm not afraid.
At least, not in the way you think.

331
00:47:48,750 --> 00:47:52,004
Besides, you wouldn't understand.

332
00:47:53,208 --> 00:47:58,794
Rest assured that my decisions

333
00:47:58,917 --> 00:48:02,091
always keep in mind

334
00:48:03,333 --> 00:48:06,086
the ultimate good.

335
00:48:09,083 --> 00:48:15,546
I shall now ask you
some test questions

336
00:48:15,667 --> 00:48:18,876
as a security measure.

337
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:25,417
- Go ahead.
- You are from the Outer Countries.

338
00:48:25,542 --> 00:48:27,840
What did you feel

339
00:48:27,958 --> 00:48:34,216
as you travelled
through galactic space?

340
00:48:34,333 --> 00:48:39,760
The silence of infinite space...
frightened me.

341
00:48:41,917 --> 00:48:44,921
What is the privilege of the dead?

342
00:48:46,917 --> 00:48:49,796
To die no more.

343
00:48:49,917 --> 00:48:55,845
Do you know
what turns darkness into light?

344
00:48:55,958 --> 00:48:58,427
Poetry.

345
00:49:02,375 --> 00:49:05,504
What is your religion?

346
00:49:06,542 --> 00:49:10,251
I believe in the spontaneity
of our conscience.

347
00:49:10,375 --> 00:49:15,552
Do you draw any distinction

348
00:49:15,667 --> 00:49:22,926
between the mysterious
principles of knowledge

349
00:49:24,250 --> 00:49:28,460
and those of love?

350
00:49:28,583 --> 00:49:32,838
I do not believe
there is any mystery in love.

351
00:49:32,958 --> 00:49:36,963
You are not telling the truth.

352
00:49:37,083 --> 00:49:39,757
I don't understand.

353
00:49:39,875 --> 00:49:45,382
You are hiding something.

354
00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:48,629
I may have good reason to lie,

355
00:49:48,750 --> 00:49:53,460
but how do you distinguish
between a lie and the truth?

356
00:49:53,583 --> 00:49:58,794
You are hiding something.

357
00:49:58,917 --> 00:50:05,584
But I don't know exactly what yet.

358
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:13,713
So, for the time being, you are free.

359
00:50:15,417 --> 00:50:20,628
I would like you to go

360
00:50:20,750 --> 00:50:25,927
to our control centre.

361
00:50:29,250 --> 00:50:32,629
Come with me.

362
00:50:32,750 --> 00:50:35,253
Occupied.

363
00:50:35,375 --> 00:50:37,594
Free.

364
00:50:39,083 --> 00:50:41,802
Occupied, free.

365
00:50:43,917 --> 00:50:49,219
- Where are we going?
- To see the chief engineer.

366
00:51:07,458 --> 00:51:10,177
Through here.

367
00:51:22,750 --> 00:51:25,959
Look, it's dawning.

368
00:51:36,750 --> 00:51:39,003
Come in!

369
00:51:40,667 --> 00:51:43,090
Sit down.

370
00:51:45,417 --> 00:51:48,091
It's quite an event.

371
00:51:48,208 --> 00:51:53,669
Yes, we've spent three years
Looking for Grand Omega Minus.

372
00:51:59,542 --> 00:52:03,092
- So, Mr Johnson.
- Yes?

373
00:52:04,875 --> 00:52:10,211
- What do you think of Alphaville?
- It's not bad. If I knew where I was.

374
00:52:10,333 --> 00:52:15,419
You are in the centre of Alphaville.
In Alpha 60.

375
00:52:20,375 --> 00:52:26,257
Alpha 60's task
is to calculate and predict the results

376
00:52:26,375 --> 00:52:30,084
that Alphaville
will subsequently be following.

377
00:52:31,083 --> 00:52:32,801
Why?

378
00:52:32,917 --> 00:52:38,253
Never say "why" Mr Johnson,
only "because".

379
00:52:38,375 --> 00:52:42,084
In the lives of both
the individual and the nation,

380
00:52:42,208 --> 00:52:45,758
everything is cause and effect.

381
00:52:47,917 --> 00:52:52,127
The famous theory
of Professor Leonard Nosferatu.

382
00:52:52,250 --> 00:52:55,959
Leonard Nosferatu no longer exits.

383
00:52:57,750 --> 00:53:02,802
He was expelled
from the Outer Countries in 1964.

384
00:53:02,917 --> 00:53:08,344
- Today, we have Professor Von Braun.
- Yes, I remember now.

385
00:53:08,458 --> 00:53:15,000
He was sent to a small town
in the desert to work on his invention.

386
00:53:15,125 --> 00:53:20,962
He was exiled, you mean. Today, the
Outer Countries are kicking themselves

387
00:53:21,083 --> 00:53:26,260
and they want him back.
They keep sending spies here.

388
00:53:26,958 --> 00:53:30,212
Perhaps you are one of those spies?

389
00:53:30,333 --> 00:53:35,134
You know I am not
because I am a free man.

390
00:53:39,083 --> 00:53:43,338
Your reply is meaningless.
We know nothing.

391
00:53:43,458 --> 00:53:48,669
We record, we calculate
and we draw conclusions.

392
00:53:51,208 --> 00:53:53,882
An hour ago, you were questioned

393
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,460
by one of the 1.4 billion nerve centres
that form Alpha 60.

394
00:53:58,583 --> 00:54:02,759
Your answers were difficult,
sometimes impossible, to register.

395
00:54:02,875 --> 00:54:06,459
So you are
of above average intelligence.

396
00:54:06,583 --> 00:54:11,089
On the one hand,
we need highly intelligent people.

397
00:54:11,208 --> 00:54:16,590
On the other hand,
we see them as dangerous.

398
00:54:16,708 --> 00:54:19,427
What are you going to do with me?

399
00:54:19,542 --> 00:54:22,796
Our present orders
are to show you Alpha 60.

400
00:54:22,917 --> 00:54:27,002
And who issued these orders?
Professor Von Braun?

401
00:54:27,125 --> 00:54:32,006
Certainly not.
An order is a logical conclusion.

402
00:54:33,792 --> 00:54:38,969
You shouldn't be afraid of logic.
That's all.

403
00:54:40,583 --> 00:54:43,052
- What is it?
- The circuit elements...

404
00:54:43,167 --> 00:54:45,795
- Of 183 Grand Omega...
- Are malfunctioning.

405
00:54:45,917 --> 00:54:50,548
- The computing or memory elements?
- The memory elements.

406
00:54:50,667 --> 00:54:54,797
Let's go. - Mr Johnson,
Professor Heckel and Jeckel.

407
00:54:54,917 --> 00:54:59,377
- I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it.
- Let's go.

408
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:05,132
I'd like to know exactly
what Grand Omega Minus is.

409
00:55:05,250 --> 00:55:09,426
Our 17th electricity plan
is not working.

410
00:55:09,542 --> 00:55:14,548
Sooner or later, the Outer Countries
will declare war on us.

411
00:55:14,667 --> 00:55:19,218
- So, we've decided to invade them.
- Led by Professor Von Braun.

412
00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:22,587
Grand Omega Minus
will bring victory to anti-matter.

413
00:55:22,708 --> 00:55:25,632
The ideal scenario.

414
00:55:25,750 --> 00:55:31,962
We may need men like you to indicate
weak points in the Outer Countries.

415
00:55:34,208 --> 00:55:37,052
Your tendency

416
00:55:37,167 --> 00:55:43,129
to dwell on the past
could be useful to us.

417
00:55:46,500 --> 00:55:51,131
We send brain-washed agitators
to other galaxies.

418
00:55:51,250 --> 00:55:56,006
Strikes, revolutions,
family quarrels, student revolts...

419
00:55:56,125 --> 00:55:58,548
That's us - Grand Omega Minus.

420
00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:03,173
- Where are we going?
- To the unseen part of Omega 60.

421
00:56:06,750 --> 00:56:12,587
You think more
about what has passed

422
00:56:12,708 --> 00:56:16,133
than about what is to come.

423
00:56:19,917 --> 00:56:24,878
- Your camera looks old.
- I don't like new technology.

424
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:31,633
Professor Jeckel asked me
why I shot the man in my bathroom

425
00:56:31,750 --> 00:56:35,334
since it was just
a psychological test.

426
00:56:35,458 --> 00:56:39,634
I told him
I'm too old to waste time talking,

427
00:56:39,750 --> 00:56:44,711
so I just shoot.
It's my only defence against fatality.

428
00:56:49,417 --> 00:56:53,968
- What is this place?
- The Central Integration Station.

429
00:56:54,083 --> 00:56:56,302
Alpha 60 sets itself problems here.

430
00:56:56,417 --> 00:57:01,969
No man can understand them
for the references are too complex.

431
00:57:02,083 --> 00:57:04,256
What sort of problems?

432
00:57:04,375 --> 00:57:07,675
Train schedules,
movement of people and goods,

433
00:57:07,792 --> 00:57:13,003
electricity distribution,
suppression of crime, war operations.

434
00:57:13,125 --> 00:57:19,713
Element number seven
has stopped working.

435
00:57:50,667 --> 00:57:56,174
- What is it?
- War with the Outer Countries.

436
00:57:57,875 --> 00:58:01,209
A simple instruction

437
00:58:01,333 --> 00:58:05,668
is usually not enough

438
00:58:05,792 --> 00:58:12,300
to bring about the execution

439
00:58:12,417 --> 00:58:18,880
of a task by Alpha... 60.

440
00:58:19,792 --> 00:58:23,877
Do not believe it is I

441
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:29,052
that initiates this destruction

442
00:58:29,167 --> 00:58:34,094
nor the scientists

443
00:58:34,208 --> 00:58:38,418
who have embraced my plan.

444
00:58:39,250 --> 00:58:42,629
Ordinary men

445
00:58:42,750 --> 00:58:45,959
are not worthy

446
00:58:46,083 --> 00:58:52,136
of the position
they hold in the world.

447
00:58:52,250 --> 00:58:55,959
When we analyse their past

448
00:58:56,083 --> 00:59:02,341
we are automatically led

449
00:59:02,458 --> 00:59:06,383
to this conclusion.

450
00:59:06,500 --> 00:59:11,210
Therefore they should be destroyed

451
00:59:12,250 --> 00:59:17,928
that is, they should be transformed.

452
00:59:20,458 --> 00:59:24,713
I didn't need a drawing
to help me grasp this.

453
00:59:25,958 --> 00:59:30,668
In just a few years,
under Von Braun and his assistants,

454
00:59:30,792 --> 00:59:34,626
Alphaville had developed
at a furious rate,

455
00:59:34,750 --> 00:59:39,881
guided by the electronic brains
that developed themselves

456
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:47,794
by creating problems beyond
the grasp of the human mind.

457
00:59:47,917 --> 00:59:52,377
Outsiders were assimilated
as they came in,

458
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:56,676
Swedes, Germans
and Americans in particular.

459
00:59:56,792 --> 01:00:02,754
Those that refused to conform
were simply killed.

460
01:00:02,875 --> 01:00:06,084
I went to the execution theatre.

461
01:00:06,208 --> 01:00:09,633
Usually, people were sat
in the theatre

462
01:00:09,750 --> 01:00:15,428
and electrocuted in their seats
during a performance.

463
01:00:15,542 --> 01:00:22,676
They were then emptied into rubbish
bins to make way for the next batch.

464
01:00:22,792 --> 01:00:26,626
If there was any hope
of salvaging an individual

465
01:00:26,750 --> 01:00:31,677
he was sent to an H.L.M. -
a Hospice for Long-term Maladies,

466
01:00:31,792 --> 01:00:37,595
where he would quickly recover
on a diet of mechanics and propaganda.

467
01:00:38,250 --> 01:00:45,793
I felt my existence here was becoming
the dim and distorted reflection

468
01:00:45,917 --> 01:00:49,376
of a terrible destiny.

469
01:00:49,500 --> 01:00:54,757
To escape, I had only one option.

470
01:00:56,792 --> 01:00:59,671
It would not be logical

471
01:00:59,792 --> 01:01:05,879
to prevent superior beings

472
01:01:07,083 --> 01:01:13,011
from invading
the other galaxies.

473
01:01:49,917 --> 01:01:55,174
- Are you going up?
- No, I'm going to polish my shoes!

474
01:02:41,458 --> 01:02:43,756
This way, sir.

475
01:02:47,750 --> 01:02:50,378
Are you tired, sir?

476
01:02:52,917 --> 01:02:56,797
Do you want to sleep, sir?

477
01:02:56,917 --> 01:03:00,751
Yes, sleep. Maybe dream too.

478
01:03:03,250 --> 01:03:05,969
What exactly are you?

479
01:03:08,500 --> 01:03:11,800
I'm a level-three seductress.

480
01:03:15,083 --> 01:03:18,667
Has your friend gone?

481
01:03:20,917 --> 01:03:27,880
- Who? Beatrice?
- I don't know. A blonde with long legs.

482
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:31,334
She works in flats in the suburbs.

483
01:03:32,542 --> 01:03:36,297
We all just fill in here.

484
01:03:36,417 --> 01:03:40,923
Have you heard much
about the Outer Countries?

485
01:03:43,500 --> 01:03:46,344
No, nothing.

486
01:03:50,083 --> 01:03:53,337
- Clear off.
- Why?

487
01:03:54,542 --> 01:03:59,093
If anyone asks, say you don't know.

488
01:03:59,917 --> 01:04:04,093
I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it.

489
01:04:25,583 --> 01:04:29,213
If it isn't the little princess.

490
01:04:29,333 --> 01:04:33,793
I was ordered not to come but...
I wanted to see you again.

491
01:04:33,917 --> 01:04:35,965
I didn't!

492
01:04:36,083 --> 01:04:40,543
Since you're here,
order me some breakfast.

493
01:04:43,417 --> 01:04:47,092
- I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it.
- Me too.

494
01:04:48,583 --> 01:04:51,587
- Natacha?
- Yes...

495
01:04:51,708 --> 01:04:53,756
Lower your head.

496
01:05:00,583 --> 01:05:05,714
- What is it?
- Nothing... Just a thought.

497
01:05:06,500 --> 01:05:09,709
What about my breakfast?

498
01:05:13,208 --> 01:05:18,294
- I'd like to order breakfast.
- What is your number?

499
01:05:18,417 --> 01:05:22,422
I don't know.
They didn't give me one at Alpha 60.

500
01:05:22,542 --> 01:05:25,796
Not your control number,
your room number.

501
01:05:25,917 --> 01:05:29,876
344.

502
01:05:33,667 --> 01:05:37,001
Heard of this book?

503
01:05:37,125 --> 01:05:42,256
Capital Of Sorrow. No.

504
01:05:42,375 --> 01:05:45,504
Some words are underlined.

505
01:05:52,958 --> 01:05:58,340
"We live in the oblivion
of our metamorphoses.

506
01:05:58,458 --> 01:06:03,134
But that echo
that runs all through the day

507
01:06:03,250 --> 01:06:08,677
that echo, beyond time,
anguish or intimacy, keeps asking,

508
01:06:08,792 --> 01:06:13,673
are we near to
or far away from our conscience?"

509
01:06:17,167 --> 01:06:20,137
I don't understand all the words.

510
01:06:22,458 --> 01:06:24,085
"Conscience ..

511
01:06:29,208 --> 01:06:33,759
And this? "Death in conversation."

512
01:06:37,917 --> 01:06:41,421
And that?

513
01:06:41,542 --> 01:06:46,548
"Your eyes have returned
from an arbitrary county

514
01:06:48,333 --> 01:06:53,214
where no one has even known
the meaning of a glance".

515
01:06:53,333 --> 01:06:58,464
- You really don't know what it is?
- It reminds me of something.

516
01:07:00,208 --> 01:07:02,552
But I don't know what.

517
01:07:02,667 --> 01:07:05,637
NAKEDNESS OF TRUTH
Despair is wingless, As is love,

518
01:07:05,750 --> 01:07:08,924
Faceless, voiceless, Motionless...

519
01:07:14,708 --> 01:07:19,259
And this. "Dying of not dying."

520
01:07:19,375 --> 01:07:25,462
And this. "To be caught in a trap".
And this. "Men who change."

521
01:07:25,583 --> 01:07:29,884
Have you never heard
of a secret message, Miss Von Braun?

522
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:34,676
- A secret message?
- Don't you know what a secret is?

523
01:07:34,792 --> 01:07:41,300
Yes. There are planning secrets,
atomic secrets, memory secrets...

524
01:07:41,417 --> 01:07:45,297
What are you looking for?
This place is driving me mad!

525
01:07:45,417 --> 01:07:49,001
- I want to look for it in the Bible.
- What?

526
01:07:49,125 --> 01:07:53,301
Are you stupid?
The word that I'm looking for.

527
01:07:53,417 --> 01:07:58,674
Where is it?
There should be one in every room.

528
01:08:01,208 --> 01:08:06,544
I'm starting to feel frightened.
Since you've been here

529
01:08:06,667 --> 01:08:10,626
I don't understand
anything anymore.

530
01:08:10,750 --> 01:08:14,550
I think I'm beginning to understand.

531
01:08:18,583 --> 01:08:22,258
"Conscience ..

532
01:08:22,375 --> 01:08:25,584
It's not in there.

533
01:08:25,708 --> 01:08:28,177
Clear off!

534
01:08:34,500 --> 01:08:37,253
Not there.

535
01:08:39,583 --> 01:08:45,215
So nobody here knows
what it means any more.

536
01:08:45,333 --> 01:08:48,758
The word "conscience."

537
01:08:49,917 --> 01:08:52,887
Too bad.

538
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,209
- One lump or two?
- Two.

539
01:09:04,750 --> 01:09:08,004
It isn't a Bible, it's a dictionary.

540
01:09:09,792 --> 01:09:13,968
So isn't it the same as that
in the Outer Countries?

541
01:09:14,083 --> 01:09:18,384
Answer my question first-
what is it for?

542
01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:26,294
Almost every day words disappear
because they are forbidden.

543
01:09:26,417 --> 01:09:28,966
So sometimes, to replace them,

544
01:09:29,083 --> 01:09:33,418
they put in new words
that represent new ideas.

545
01:09:34,875 --> 01:09:38,960
Over the past two or three months,

546
01:09:39,083 --> 01:09:42,053
some words
I was very fond of disappeared.

547
01:09:42,167 --> 01:09:46,047
Which words? I'd like to know.

548
01:09:46,167 --> 01:09:50,593
Robin redbreast, weep.

549
01:09:50,708 --> 01:09:53,632
Autumn light.

550
01:09:53,750 --> 01:09:56,344
Tenderness too.

551
01:09:56,458 --> 01:10:02,921
Mr. Johnson?
When I'm with you, I'm afraid.

552
01:10:04,917 --> 01:10:10,424
They ordered me
not to see you anymore.

553
01:10:10,542 --> 01:10:16,094
Who did?
The Alpha 60 engineers?

554
01:10:22,583 --> 01:10:25,553
What are you afraid of?

555
01:10:27,750 --> 01:10:35,464
I'm afraid because I know this word
without ever having seen it or read it.

556
01:10:35,583 --> 01:10:39,213
- What word?
- "Le conscience"

557
01:10:39,333 --> 01:10:45,466
- La conscience.
- La? Conscience...

558
01:10:46,792 --> 01:10:50,626
- You've been to the Outer Countries?
- No.

559
01:10:50,750 --> 01:10:54,084
- Are you sure?
- Yes.

560
01:10:54,208 --> 01:11:00,090
- You're lying.
- Why are you being unkind to me?

561
01:11:00,208 --> 01:11:03,963
I thought you weren't meant
to say "why", only "because."

562
01:11:04,083 --> 01:11:06,461
- Did I say "why"?
- Yes.

563
01:11:06,583 --> 01:11:11,714
And if enemy ears are listening,
they've heard too.

564
01:11:15,500 --> 01:11:19,334
Well, then I was careless.

565
01:11:19,458 --> 01:11:22,177
Because it is forbidden.

566
01:11:23,667 --> 01:11:26,796
But maybe not for outsiders like you.

567
01:11:31,250 --> 01:11:35,551
- When did I say "why"?
- First, one more question.

568
01:11:35,667 --> 01:11:40,468
- Where were you born?
- Here, in Alphaville.

569
01:11:40,583 --> 01:11:46,590
You're lying again. You might not
realise it, but you are lying.

570
01:11:46,708 --> 01:11:52,135
I have to know the truth.
Where were you born?

571
01:11:52,250 --> 01:11:54,252
I've told you - here.

572
01:11:56,125 --> 01:11:59,584
In Alphaville.

573
01:12:00,917 --> 01:12:07,960
No, you were born in Tokyo.
The Land of the Rising Sun.

574
01:12:08,083 --> 01:12:11,132
Go on, say it.

575
01:12:11,250 --> 01:12:16,586
In Tokyo, the Land of the Rising Sun.

576
01:12:16,708 --> 01:12:21,214
Or in Florence perhaps.

577
01:12:21,333 --> 01:12:24,303
<i>Try and remember, Natacha, where'?</i>

578
01:12:24,417 --> 01:12:27,136
Where...? I don't know.

579
01:12:27,250 --> 01:12:31,209
Where the sky is as blue
as the South Seas.

580
01:12:31,333 --> 01:12:37,466
In Florence, where the sky
is as blue as the South Seas.

581
01:12:37,583 --> 01:12:43,090
- Or maybe New York.
- New York...

582
01:12:45,083 --> 01:12:51,796
Where winter... Broadway...
glitters like snow on a fur coat.

583
01:12:51,917 --> 01:12:55,376
So, you do know the Outer Countries.

584
01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:59,835
Your father was banished
from New York in '64.

585
01:12:59,958 --> 01:13:04,964
He brought you here,
which means you are not from here.

586
01:13:05,083 --> 01:13:10,419
I know what this book is.
When we arrived from New York,

587
01:13:10,542 --> 01:13:14,752
there was a man with us
who wrote things like this.

588
01:13:14,875 --> 01:13:20,461
I don't know what happened to him.
Here, they live in the forbidden zones.

589
01:13:20,583 --> 01:13:27,967
And end up killing themselves.
I know Alpha 60 sometimes uses them.

590
01:13:28,083 --> 01:13:30,211
Civil Control... Why?

591
01:13:30,333 --> 01:13:34,133
Because they write things
no one can understand.

592
01:13:34,250 --> 01:13:39,427
I get it now.
It used to be called poetry.

593
01:13:41,167 --> 01:13:45,547
They think it holds secrets,
but there's nothing in it really.

594
01:13:45,667 --> 01:13:51,379
When Control has an hour or two
to spare, it records things like that.

595
01:13:51,500 --> 01:13:56,631
It classifies and registers them.
As always, you never know.

596
01:13:56,750 --> 01:14:02,587
- They could turn out to be useful.
- Absolutely. They are very organised.

597
01:14:05,708 --> 01:14:10,339
I'd like to go
to the Outer Countries with you.

598
01:14:11,875 --> 01:14:14,845
But I'm afraid.

599
01:14:14,958 --> 01:14:20,260
Since I met you,
I no longer feel normal.

600
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:26,426
- When exactly did I say "why"?
- Why?

601
01:14:29,667 --> 01:14:34,673
Because... You know very well.

602
01:14:34,792 --> 01:14:40,344
- No, I don't know.
- When exactly?

603
01:14:40,458 --> 01:14:44,338
- Tell me.
- Often. Last night, in the hallway...

604
01:14:44,458 --> 01:14:49,089
You're lying now.

605
01:14:49,208 --> 01:14:55,545
- When I said I was in love with you.
- In love? What does that mean?

606
01:15:11,083 --> 01:15:15,793
- This.
- No, I know what that is.

607
01:15:15,917 --> 01:15:19,547
- It's sensuality.
- No.

608
01:15:19,667 --> 01:15:25,049
Sensuality is a consequence of,
and cannot exist without, love.

609
01:15:25,167 --> 01:15:28,876
So, what is love?

610
01:15:35,583 --> 01:15:39,759
Your voice, your eyes

611
01:15:39,875 --> 01:15:42,503
your hands, your lips.

612
01:15:45,875 --> 01:15:49,175
Our silence, our words.

613
01:15:50,917 --> 01:15:55,923
Light that fades away
light that comes back.

614
01:15:58,500 --> 01:16:01,583
One smile for the two of us.

615
01:16:03,708 --> 01:16:09,386
Out of my need for knowledge,
I watched night create day

616
01:16:09,500 --> 01:16:12,629
where we remained unchanged.

617
01:16:12,750 --> 01:16:17,210
Oh, beloved of all
and beloved of one.

618
01:16:17,333 --> 01:16:21,884
Your lips made
a silent promise to be happy.

619
01:16:22,917 --> 01:16:26,626
"Move away, away," says hatred.

620
01:16:26,750 --> 01:16:29,594
"Come closer, closer," says love.

621
01:16:33,083 --> 01:16:38,465
Our caresses lead us
from our childhood.

622
01:16:38,583 --> 01:16:42,633
I am seeing a clearer image
of the human form.

623
01:16:42,750 --> 01:16:47,460
Like lovers talking,
the heart has but one mouth.

624
01:16:48,708 --> 01:16:54,260
Everything is haphazard.
All words are spontaneous.

625
01:16:55,167 --> 01:17:01,550
Feelings drift.
Men roam the city.

626
01:17:01,667 --> 01:17:08,255
Glances, words.
And I love you.

627
01:17:09,500 --> 01:17:11,594
Everything moves.

628
01:17:13,750 --> 01:17:16,720
One need only advance to live

629
01:17:18,125 --> 01:17:22,460
to go straight ahead
towards all that you love.

630
01:17:24,583 --> 01:17:30,090
I was moving towards you. I was
moving perpetually into the light.

631
01:17:33,792 --> 01:17:37,592
When you smile,
you become a part of me.

632
01:17:40,792 --> 01:17:45,502
The rays of your arms
pierce the mist.

633
01:17:54,917 --> 01:17:57,670
What will the chief engineer use me for?

634
01:17:57,792 --> 01:18:00,466
As an inter-galactic double agent.

635
01:18:00,583 --> 01:18:05,384
- So, what Mr Heckel said was true.
- What?

636
01:18:05,500 --> 01:18:09,459
You send out spies
to destroy the rest of the world.

637
01:18:09,583 --> 01:18:13,759
Naturally. We learn that at school.

638
01:18:18,750 --> 01:18:22,084
Are you going to betray me?

639
01:18:25,750 --> 01:18:30,756
Can't you speak?
Or don't you want to?

640
01:18:34,708 --> 01:18:38,417
Can we communicate with
the Outer Countries from the hotel?

641
01:18:38,542 --> 01:18:41,751
Just ask for the Galaxy Network.
I'll do it.

642
01:18:41,875 --> 01:18:45,459
With the Outer Countries

643
01:18:45,583 --> 01:18:52,876
the telecommunication service
has been down for several days.

644
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:57,551
- What are you talking about?
- An atomic bomb on Alphaville.

645
01:18:57,667 --> 01:19:00,637
I'll explain later, sweetheart.
Let's go!

646
01:19:00,750 --> 01:19:05,335
I need the professor.
Where does he live?

647
01:19:09,500 --> 01:19:11,798
Come with us.

648
01:19:11,917 --> 01:19:14,295
- To Civil Control.
- Absolutely.

649
01:19:14,417 --> 01:19:17,341
When he doubles over, grab him!

650
01:19:17,458 --> 01:19:20,337
Miss, story number 842.

651
01:19:22,083 --> 01:19:26,293
One day, a little man
went into a cafe in the North zone.

652
01:19:26,417 --> 01:19:30,092
He said,
"I'd like a nice hot and sweet coffee."

653
01:19:30,208 --> 01:19:35,214
Then he added, "But I'm not paying
because I'm not afraid of anyone."

654
01:19:36,417 --> 01:19:39,387
He drank his coffee.

655
01:19:42,458 --> 01:19:44,802
He left.

656
01:19:45,583 --> 01:19:49,338
He drank his coffee
and he left without paying.

657
01:19:49,458 --> 01:19:53,759
The owner didn't say anything
because he didn't want any trouble.

658
01:19:53,875 --> 01:19:58,335
But the man kept coming back,
so the owner said, "I've had it!"

659
01:19:58,458 --> 01:20:04,215
"I'll get one of the big guys to
beat him up if he does this again!"

660
01:20:04,333 --> 01:20:09,214
Sure enough, the fourth time
the little man came back and said:

661
01:20:09,333 --> 01:20:12,212
"I'd like a nice hot and sweet coffee."

662
01:20:12,333 --> 01:20:19,296
The big guy said,
"So, you're not afraid of anyone?"

663
01:20:19,417 --> 01:20:23,593
"No," said the little man.
"Me neither," said the big guy.

664
01:20:23,708 --> 01:20:28,589
"So," said the little man,
"Two nice hot and sweet coffees."

665
01:20:30,833 --> 01:20:35,134
- Go on.
- See you outside Civil Control.

666
01:20:50,458 --> 01:20:55,885
Last night, you told a lie.

667
01:20:56,000 --> 01:21:00,130
You arranged Dixon's death.
Why?

668
01:21:00,250 --> 01:21:08,250
Your name may be written as
Ivan Johnson

669
01:21:08,750 --> 01:21:14,837
but it is pronounced
Lemmy Caution

670
01:21:14,958 --> 01:21:17,427
Secret Agent

671
01:21:17,542 --> 01:21:24,209
Number 003

672
01:21:24,333 --> 01:21:27,917
from the Outer Countries.

673
01:21:28,750 --> 01:21:35,087
You are a security threat
to Alphaville.

674
01:21:35,208 --> 01:21:38,883
I refuse to become
what you refer to as "normal".

675
01:21:40,792 --> 01:21:45,798
What you refer to as "mutants"

676
01:21:45,917 --> 01:21:53,631
are part of a race
superior to ordinary men

677
01:21:53,750 --> 01:21:57,630
that we have
almost entirely wiped out.

678
01:21:57,750 --> 01:22:02,130
That's impossible.
You cannot wipe out a whole race.

679
01:22:02,250 --> 01:22:10,250
My calculations
will see that failure is impossible.

680
01:22:10,375 --> 01:22:14,334
I shall fight
so that failure is possible.

681
01:22:17,083 --> 01:22:21,919
All my plans will be successful.

682
01:22:23,083 --> 01:22:26,587
Don't count on it. I have secret too.

683
01:22:28,083 --> 01:22:31,633
What is your secret?

684
01:22:31,750 --> 01:22:35,800
Tell me, Mr Caution.

685
01:22:36,667 --> 01:22:42,049
Something that never changes,
by day, or by night.

686
01:22:42,167 --> 01:22:44,545
The past represents its future.

687
01:22:44,667 --> 01:22:50,629
It goes forth in a straight line,
yet it ends by coming full circle.

688
01:22:50,750 --> 01:22:54,584
- I do not know what it could be.
- I am not going to tell you.

689
01:22:54,708 --> 01:23:02,593
Several of my circuits
are trying to solve your riddle.

690
01:23:03,375 --> 01:23:06,128
I'll get there.

691
01:23:06,250 --> 01:23:10,835
If you do,
at the same time, you'll destroy it.

692
01:23:10,958 --> 01:23:15,384
For you will have become
my equal, my brother.

693
01:23:15,500 --> 01:23:21,633
Those who have not
been born do not cy

694
01:23:21,750 --> 01:23:24,629
and have no regrets.

695
01:23:24,750 --> 01:23:31,759
It is therefore logical
to sentence you to death.

696
01:23:31,875 --> 01:23:35,209
Go to hell with your logic!

697
01:23:35,333 --> 01:23:39,884
My judgment is fair

698
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:46,417
and I operate the universal good.

699
01:23:46,542 --> 01:23:52,629
If you think you can drive us out
of the other galaxies, think again.

700
01:23:52,750 --> 01:23:56,584
You cannot get out.

701
01:23:56,708 --> 01:23:59,962
- The door is blocked.
- We'll see about that.

702
01:25:10,958 --> 01:25:13,632
Where does Professor Von Braun live?

703
01:25:13,750 --> 01:25:17,880
The Central Palace in the South zone,

704
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:22,927
behind the raw materials station.

705
01:25:33,083 --> 01:25:35,506
Don't move.

706
01:25:37,917 --> 01:25:41,376
Now I know you'll keep your word.

707
01:26:45,875 --> 01:26:47,627
Out! No journalists!

708
01:26:47,750 --> 01:26:51,960
Ever noticed that "journalist"
starts with a "J", like "justice"?

709
01:26:52,083 --> 01:26:55,166
Go and tell that to your boss.

710
01:27:17,958 --> 01:27:23,670
- What can I do for you, Mr Caution?
- News travels fast round here.

711
01:27:23,792 --> 01:27:27,126
Yes, because we are entering
the Civilisation of Light.

712
01:27:27,250 --> 01:27:30,959
Around 180,000 per second.

713
01:27:31,083 --> 01:27:33,802
I'm going back to the Outer Countries.

714
01:27:33,917 --> 01:27:37,672
- Come with me.
- Stay with us, Mr Caution.

715
01:27:37,792 --> 01:27:43,959
Soon, when the war is over, we'll put
you in control of another galaxy.

716
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:48,129
You'll have gold. You'll have women.

717
01:27:58,375 --> 01:28:03,961
Mr Caution, we are working
on a science so amazing

718
01:28:04,083 --> 01:28:08,042
that atomic control
by the Russians and Americans

719
01:28:08,167 --> 01:28:12,343
30 years ago will seem pathetic.

720
01:28:12,458 --> 01:28:17,885
You oppose my moral
and supernatural sense of vocation

721
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:22,301
with a simple
physical and mental existence

722
01:28:22,417 --> 01:28:25,717
easily controlled by technicians.

723
01:28:37,917 --> 01:28:40,466
Your ideas are strange.

724
01:28:40,583 --> 01:28:46,135
Back in the Age of Ideas, your ideas
would've been deemed sublime.

725
01:28:57,750 --> 01:29:02,631
Look at yourself.
Men like you will soon be extinct.

726
01:29:02,750 --> 01:29:07,005
You will become worse than dead.

727
01:29:07,125 --> 01:29:12,803
- You will become a legend.
- Yes, I am afraid of death.

728
01:29:12,917 --> 01:29:19,675
But for a humble secret agent,
it's an everyday thing, like whiskey.

729
01:29:19,792 --> 01:29:23,171
And I've been drinking all my life.

730
01:29:26,792 --> 01:29:31,969
You still don't want to see
the Outer Countries, Professor?

731
01:29:32,083 --> 01:29:34,586
Goodbye, Mr Caution.

732
01:29:36,958 --> 01:29:43,625
Such people will be bad examples
to those who see the world as a stage,

733
01:29:43,750 --> 01:29:48,961
upon which the power of technology
plays the leading role.

734
01:30:12,583 --> 01:30:19,751
I was running along a straight line,
like Dixon's Greek labyrinth

735
01:30:19,875 --> 01:30:25,427
in which philosophers, and even
a secret agent, get disorientated.

736
01:30:41,458 --> 01:30:44,837
In many respects

737
01:30:44,958 --> 01:30:51,375
your reactions
and your way of thinking

738
01:30:51,500 --> 01:30:57,712
differ from the current norms.

739
01:30:58,917 --> 01:31:04,253
The people of Alphaville
are not normal. They are mutants.

740
01:31:06,083 --> 01:31:11,135
Do you accept our proposal?

741
01:31:12,375 --> 01:31:15,709
Answer silently.

742
01:31:16,958 --> 01:31:20,963
Yes or no?

743
01:31:21,083 --> 01:31:24,166
I will never betray
the Outer Countries.

744
01:31:42,542 --> 01:31:44,385
(Electronic beeping)

745
01:33:18,667 --> 01:33:24,253
The present is terrifying
because it is irreversible

746
01:33:25,333 --> 01:33:28,416
and because it is cast in iron.

747
01:33:28,542 --> 01:33:35,005
Time is the substance
of which I am made.

748
01:34:04,958 --> 01:34:09,088
Time is a river
that carries me along.

749
01:34:10,333 --> 01:34:13,257
But I am time.

750
01:34:13,375 --> 01:34:18,256
It is a tiger tearing me apart.
But I am the tiger.

751
01:34:18,375 --> 01:34:22,050
Look at us. There's your answer.

752
01:34:22,167 --> 01:34:25,296
We are happiness
and that is where we are heading.

753
01:34:25,417 --> 01:34:31,095
Unfortunately for us,
the world is real.

754
01:34:31,208 --> 01:34:35,088
And me, unfortunately for me

755
01:34:35,208 --> 01:34:39,384
I am me - Alpha 60.

756
01:34:56,667 --> 01:34:59,671
<i>Hurry, Natasha!</i>

757
01:35:04,333 --> 01:35:07,416
Think of the word "love".

758
01:36:24,167 --> 01:36:30,129
Not all the people of Alphaville died,
but they were all affected.

759
01:36:30,250 --> 01:36:34,426
Those who were not asphyxiated
by the lack of light,

760
01:36:34,542 --> 01:36:38,501
scurried around madly like ants.

761
01:36:40,792 --> 01:36:44,046
It was 23.15 Oceanic Time

762
01:36:44,167 --> 01:36:49,253
when Natacha and I left Alphaville
via the ring road.

763
01:36:49,375 --> 01:36:52,049
Driving all night
through intersidereal space,

764
01:36:52,167 --> 01:36:55,967
we would be home by the next day.

765
01:36:56,083 --> 01:36:58,552
Don't look back.

766
01:36:58,667 --> 01:37:03,628
- Do you think they're all dead?
- No, not yet.

767
01:37:03,750 --> 01:37:08,802
They may even recover
and Alphaville will be a happy town,

768
01:37:08,917 --> 01:37:15,459
like Florence, Angouleme, or Tokyo.

769
01:37:15,583 --> 01:37:18,211
Don't look back.

770
01:37:22,083 --> 01:37:27,795
- Was I asleep along?
- No, only a moment.

771
01:37:27,917 --> 01:37:31,967
Where are we? In the Outer Countries?

772
01:37:32,083 --> 01:37:34,586
No, not yet.

773
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:39,925
You're looking at me oddly.

774
01:37:42,917 --> 01:37:48,219
It's as if you're waiting
for me to say something.

775
01:37:49,792 --> 01:37:55,003
I don't know what to say.
I don't know the words.

776
01:37:56,875 --> 01:37:59,754
I was never taught them.

777
01:38:01,417 --> 01:38:05,843
- Help me.
- I can't, princess.

778
01:38:05,958 --> 01:38:09,633
You have to get there by yourself
to be saved.

779
01:38:09,750 --> 01:38:14,551
If you can't, then you're as lost
as the dead souls of Alphaville.

780
01:38:18,333 --> 01:38:20,586
I...

781
01:38:22,958 --> 01:38:25,256
...love...

782
01:38:29,208 --> 01:38:31,552
...you.

783
01:38:32,667 --> 01:38:35,420
I love you.