Just then, as Steven and Officer Randy arrived, Steven stole the deputy""s gun and fired multiple shots into Robert""s head and body, to protect Jessica.The deliberately unsettling, ilted angles reflected the state of the ruined, fractured and dark city, filled with black marketeers, spies, refugees, thieves, and foreign powers seeking control.[Note: This was shades of an earlier campaign for her talkie debut inAnna Christie (1930)- "Garbo Talks!"] Additional ads proclaimed: "Don""t Pronounce It - See It!"Masterfully produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, known for sophisticated, witty, and stylish comedies, this film was major star Greta Garbo""s 26th film (and only Lubitsch film), and considered to be her last great film.In the stirring conclusion, human-being Decker offered himself up tophysicallymerge with V""Ger (symbolized by uniting with its android probe Ilia) to provide a "human quality" - to merge man and machine; the merging took place in a dazzling, explosive shower of white light, creating a new glowing alien entity or non-corporeal life form ("We witnessed a birth.