And then they attacked!

We watched part of Alphaville (Jean Luc Godard) in class this morning. It's his surrealist sci-fi piece. Most of the conventions are from film noir. However, on reflection, it seemed rather like a poorly run D&D campaign. And then they attacked! Three times in the 45 minutes that we watched, random men jumped out of random places and the hero (Lemmy Caution) nonchalantly shot or stabbed them, causing them to fall out of the frame as quickly as they had entered it. Sometimes there was a little chasing around first. Usually they came from places they couldn't possibly have been; like jumping out of the bathroom after the hero had just been filling the tub with water (and we could see the entire bathroom).

So that was fun.

I think I'm interested in the surrealism movement.