BackgroundSleeper(1973) is one of Woody Allen""s funniest films - a science-fiction satirical comedy classic and screwball comedy about the dystopic future 200 years ahead during a totalitarian, police-state regime in the year 2173 - with Dixieland and swing music (from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra).A montage of TV reports and commentators spoke about he "SUPERMAN QUESTION" - the powerful, messianic Savior character who had appeared on Earth and had become controversial for intervening in human""s lives - this was considered a major "paradigm shift.He is a small-town, lowly Texas dishwasher at Miller""s Restaurant.Rather than go to work, he showers, dresses, and preens himself in what he imagines to be the flashy, Hollywood-defined outfit of a stud - fringed leather, a stetson hat and shiny cowboy boots.He suspected the beginnings of "witchcraft" ("a dark and powerful magic"), including the defilement and poisoning of the flora and fauna of the Greenwood Forest by a strange force or presence.She is introduced in the left corner of the frame in the first flashback scene - a tiny figure with her face framed at the bottom of the moving van window.