Piers1
..then people would understand it in its full beauty. It seems many reviewers condemn it for the particular - such as a poor example of scifi cinema robot or alien (the latter competing with that of Dark Star), or a sequence where a villain is found to be ticklish, which sets them oblivious as to the signifiance thereof and the movie's meta-narrative.
For me, this film is of the school which performs a deftly deceptive lightness of touch around profound issues. But here, uniquely, we see utilised measured and studied absurdist interludes, and a romantic dreamlike dynamic. I write 'deceptive', because at its core, if you care to look deeper into the pool, there is a story which is a subtle yet quite profound exposition of and meditation on the nature of isolation; the yearning inherent in loneliness (who in their heart didn't hope for Neeya to be comforted with kisses and held in a loving embrace by Stepan before the end?) the transitory nature of being; how great beauty can exist alongside great tragedy; the whole wrapped in an environmental parable.
Oh, and the soundtrack is powerfully evocative, like a fleeting nimbus of forgotten childhoods around quotidian adulthood; the shimmering whimsical harpsichord figure alternating with tone-poems and Kraftwerkian industrial-electro grooves on analogue synth are utterly fitting.
Eric Stevenson
It might be kind of hard for me to fairly judge this movie seeing as how I'm pretty sure the version I saw on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" was a pretty low quality one. I guess I'm just too lazy to look for the full version. It was one of their longest episodes, okay? They must have shown everything they could! This movie tells the story of a robot trying to live on Earth, but then she goes into space or something. It was just really confusing. The quality makes me hard to believe it was made in 1981. It looks more like the 1960's.A movie like this just seems to go on too long. I'm just not used to films of this type going on this long. The costumes in this are really bad. The robots especially look terrible. It looks more like Halloween costumes. I admit there's a good scene or two. When the woman is dodging the bullets, it actually looks pretty cool. I guess the designs are a little interesting, but it doesn't amount to much. It's just not worth following. *1/2
BrianSewell
Watch this film knowing it's a pile of rubbish and you realise how good it is. Communism was a strange thing, it did not want their people to stray to the decadent west, so they tried to do there own sci fi epics. I have a communist cuckoo clock, it is a very naked, plain non Bavarian cuckoo clock with a plastic cuckoo, but it was made so that there people had no reason to envy the west and this is another ''cuckoo clock'' it has a bald woman, a robot that is made out of various laundry containers turned upside down with odds and ends stuck on it, maybe bits of my cuckoo clock as well (obsessed or what). I won't explain the plot, but if you enjoyed Solaris, The singing ringing tree etc then get this if you can.
Desdecardo78
Unfortunately, for Sandy Frank, I have only seen his movies via MST3K. Now that MST3K is gone it looks like he hasn't really done anything. Or I really don't like watching them without the MST3K comments.This movie is proof of it. It stinks. There was a reason why this movie never, naturally, was released to the United States.It was just like every other poorly written, directed, dubbed, edited, etc movie of its day. Instead of seeing it via, SciFi, eventually, we have this travesty.There isn't much to say about it since if you want to watch it you should never watch it without the MST3K. It is like pizza sauce on a pizza. Its not a pizza without it.
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