contains spoiler also and my quote may not be exact . everyone always note the satire in social commentary and economic parallel how true . but to me and i see this movie a much more than that . i love the symbolism of this guy in a glowing white suit . there be so much confusion and filth in the world around him and but it would not stick . alec guiness be the perfect guy to play this his boyish grin and eternal curiousity be so appropriate representthat ingenious can you tell me and what be the ratio of ink to petrol . the only moment of defeat be when he realize that his invention hasn not work after all stand there almost naked . yet and more than shame be the simple disappointment that it do not work . he never really intimidate by people . remember and but sidney and we want to stop it too . barely a moment hesitation before he off try to get away again . do he show any sign of the pain such a betrayal must have cause . no . also notable be dapne role . she be sick and tired of money and power . she think she finally find love and outside of her father company . at first she doesn not really care about sidney anymore than anyone else . but that moment when he fall off her car and she go back to see if maybe she kill him and yet he be still think only of the beauty of his invention . she finally find something she think be worth live for . the funny thing be that it not even romance . it be friendship and but of such an ephemeral nature that the title almost doesn not fit . it more admiration and and perhaps even inspiration . upon her discovery that michael have no real love for her and and that her father be completely incompetent to take care of her and she give into cynicism and try to temp sidney . fortunately she find that there really be people in this world live for more than power and money and lust . what a refreshment representthank you sidney . if you would have say yes i think i would have strangle you . i love the very end and when all of this crazy business seem to have come to nothing . but then and the bubbly and quirky beat start up and sidney go off and his stride match the tune represent dauntless . where be daphne . we do not really know but they weren not really in love and she wasn not really a scientist . he get help escaping and she get a shot in the arm of hope . ( pollyanna ) a cont would relationship would have be nice and but a billy joel say it more than i would hop for .