NP "I've seen things..."

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

[Natasha [Vonbraun] is dazed and helped by [Ivan] Johnson down the hall]

Johnson: Natasha, think of the word love

[She regains her balance and they continue to escape]
[In the lobby Natasha is still dazed. Johnson carries her to the parking
garage]

Not all the inhabitants died, but they were all stricken
Those not asphyxiated by the absence of light...
...sped about crazily, like ants

It was 23.15, Oceanic Time...
...when Natasha and I left Alphaville by the ring road
A night drive across intersidereal space, and we'd be home

Johnson: Don't look back

Natasha: Do you think they're all dead?

Johnson: Not yet
They may recover, and Alphaville will be happy, like Florence
Like Angoulême City, like Tokyorama

Natasha: Have I slept for long?

Johnson: No, just the span of a moment

Natasha: Where are we? In the Lands Without?

Johnson: Not yet

Natasha: You're looking at me very strangely

Johnson: Yes

Natasha: You're waiting for me to say something to you

Johnson: Yes

Natasha: I don't know what to say
They're words I don't know
I wasn't taught them
Help me

Johnson: Impossible, Princess. Help yourself, then you'll be saved
If you don't, you're as lost as the dead of Alphaville

Natasha: I

love

you

I love you


The End

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Jean-Luc Godard,  "Alphaville" (1965)
http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/alphavil.html




Heikki