What can you say that hasn't already been said. The dispassionate pastiche that is Lemmy Caution. The lethargy is exhilarating at times. The photography inventive and startling. The sound design unique and ground breaking. The acting superb. The music fantastique! Love it or get out of here!

Take a handful of what's happened in the past, use a variety of authors, novelists, from Science Fiction to Noir, with a space ship as a car, imagination, inspiration, and then cast.

It's not the most exciting film you've happened upon, and it can be rather heavy going more often than not, I'm not sure it's aged that well either if I'm honest. Packed full of ingredients that will consume more than one viewing to deconstruct, if you're a fan of the director you may enjoy the challenge, but I increasingly find his films a bit of a chore and only relevant as original for the time but not the space.

I am still perplexed by this film. I don't know if its overall strangeness really hits home. Nevertheless, having grown up in the fifties and sixties, I saw the fears and paranoia of that era in this movie. One can't help think of the existential parody going on here. Like so many films, it throws the whole thing at us and when we can't apply usual logic to it, it simply says, "How about that?" The main character is on a mission but is playing on a field that he can't understand because he is still a man of emotion. The folks who permeate this movie have given up emotion, including affection. I guess in the post war era with the threat of annihilation around every corner, a base and cold society isn't too far fetched. Just look at what East Berlin was like to understand it. I am uncertain how to finally judge this. I think another viewing would be worth the time, but only after some study of its origins.