Synopsis
In the omnibus project "Ro. Go. Pa. G" with ROSSELLINI and PASOLINI, GODARD unveiled a short film in 1962 reflecting a landscape of Paris. 3 years later, GODARD created Alphaville using buildings and vehicles at that moment. Alphaville has a subtitle "A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution." To find out doctor Von BRAUN, who is behind Alphaville to control human emotion, CAUTION pretends to be a reporter from "Le Figaro- Pravda." The former is representing the right wing force of France and the latter is the official paper of former USSR. Thanks to this combination of these two that have existed in the real "world system," we can name Paris and New York "city of pain." In the film, Alphaville looks like Paris and Nueva York looks like New York. It is notable that doctor Von BRAUN's real name is "Norsferatu." CAUTION succeeds in getting out of Alphaville with a woman and falls in love with her in the end of the film. The abrupt happy ending of CAUTION may look like his illusion - actually, he lost her when running away from Alphaville. Whatever. CAUTION would probably wander for 30 years until he is back to Berlin, the capital of the Unified Germany, in Germany Year 90 Nine Zero. "Wandering American" is the destiny of an FBI-turned popular novel hero Lemmy CAUTION, presented by GODARD. (SHIN Eun Shil)