Her dialogue is bare, functional – perhaps limited by her competence with language and accent (as the film begins, we hear hear her learn to pronounce a series of words in an English accent). In any case she speaks only enough to draw men into her vehicle – and this, in a passing mordant commentary on a certain kind of male sexuality, does not usually entail much talking. She is never required to give any but the most minimal account of herself, and almost everything she says is in any case a deception. She never gives any voice to feelings. When she liaises with another alien, they don’t speak. Do they have their own language – or is language something that they merely acquire in order to trick humans?