Analysis Of Alphaville

In the Science fiction Alphaville the city is run by cold science and logic, all forms of emotion and feeling having been made against the law or “bible.” The inhabitants of the city walk around in a zombie-like or robotic state making the viewer and the protagonist of the film uncomfortable. They act this way because of the tyrannical ruling of the computer overlord Alpha 60 who has a big brother or a godlike view of the entirety of the city, and anyone who acts out of order is killed or expected to commit suicide.
The implicit warning of the film is that without emotions to feel, and words to express those feelings, our world would be a very bleak and inhospitable one. It goes on to deal with the dilemma of mindlessly following the imposed

laws that are placed upon us by our governing factions. That without the power to ask questions like “why?” which, when said in the movie the character had forgotten the word due to its outlawed nature, we would just be mindless automatons. Another ramification of losing “Why?” is demonstrated through the pool execution scene, where onlookers watch as people deemed illogical are executed and applaud after each instance. As if the logical thing to do after watching another human being die is to applaud, while speaking of love and freedom is illogical and sentenced to death. We as humans are overall illogical in nature, through our emotions, free-will, and feelings, which we are allowed to express, make us individual. In Alphaville all of the citizens had had these basic human rights outlawed and out of fear of the ruling powers, blindly followed.
I think that this film has implications on the time that we are in now, our overly censored news, which depending on the station only shows one side of the story or the other. While our words are restricted by the politically correct way in which they are “supposed” to be said. That if questioned or stated is met with being socially chastised. Our freedoms to express how we feel and the free will to verbalize them is one of the key factors in what makes us human, and Alphaville illustrates a world in which those aspects have been taken away.