Smith reverently views the touching scene with patriotic pride.An elderly black man with his hat against his chest also looks up reverently.To locate Smith, Saunders caustically suggests to Senator Paine on the phone: "Why don""t they try the police? Call out some bloodhounds or Indian guides.The aggressive gang members leave the fenced-in playground and cross he tenement street.In the famous, dazzling opening sequence, they gradually break into a highly-stylized dance and then burst into a daring, high-stepping sequence - an exhilarating, inventive, visual ballet of pirouettes, vigorous athletic moves, and running jumps that symbolizes heir dominance and energy - they are readying themselves for a gang brawl.[Note: They were participating in a British ritual known as "RAG" Week in which students dressed up and cruised around town to fund-raise.[This is the first stage of fetal, reproductive life imagery: copulation and conception.]The first spoken words in the film occur here, about 25 minutes from the film""s beginning.Floyd is notified by the pink-uniformed Space Station attendant/receptionist that their elevator has come o its proper level:"Here you are, sir.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.