Dystopia

In "Alphaville" Jean-Luc Godard has created his vision of a world where technology dominates society. Alpha 60 controls not only how people behave, but also how they think. Free will has been replaced by the cold efficiency of computerized logic, and people no longer ask questions that seek out knowledge (words like "Why" and "Love" have been removed from dictionaries).

Borrowing from other sci-fi sources, this movie is still cool. You know the characters are acting, you know it's fiction, but you can't help but be drawn into their world. The more you realize the artificiality, the deeper you go into it.

Mark 13; No Flesh Shall Be Spared

Desert style, post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk horror that one will either love or hate. A former soldier salvaging for scrap brings the head of a robot to his girlfriend to use in her scrap metal sculptures. The gesture is enough to get him through the door and into her bed when we find the robot head is actually an experimental battle robot from a failed "population-control" project.

Hilarity ensues as blood, guts, spit and ass paint the walls in a washed-out-color world. Though at times it becomes a bit tedious and seems to offer no more than visuals, Hardware is still worthy enough for any fans of cyberpunk.

Highly misunderstood when first released, THX 1138 is a chilling exploration of the future and an examination of the present involving breaking away from
a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.

It's only fault, in my opinion, is the lack of dialogue and loads of inaudible chatter make it seem like we're watching THX like a frog in a jar. For me, there's enough offered in this movie to rarely acknowledge it.

On the technical side, THX is brilliant in offering cinematography that captures a sterile, sanitized world with layers of sound that reflect the rise of empty consumerism. People are stripped of their individuality by conditioning and drugs into a conformed society encouraged to "buy more".

Changeable. Alterable. Mutable. Variable. Versatile. Moldable. Movable. Fluctuate. Undulate. Flicker. Flutter. Pulsate. Vibrate. Alternate. Plastic.