La Jetée, not the most famous but one of the most mysterious films, was born in 1962. It's not an obvious film, even because it consists of photos (except of a couple of seconds of a video with a blinking girl). There aren't any dialoges, but the voice behind the scenes, the voice without any emotions, dead voice. We can also see two words which are seen by one of the heros: tete apotre. The main apostle. These words remind me 1984 by G. Orwell with its Big Brother. But we should return to the film by Chris Marker, to La Jetée.
The film is like an album of a man's photos - we are reading pages of his life. The life of the main hero without name (what signifies that he can be anybody, for example, you) was connected with his love - he saw the girl when he was a little boy, he was with her during the experiment and he died near her. As stated above everything is describes by the voice without any emotions, so the story can be told by one of experimentators, who are the only men without any emotions, who were working with the man like with a guinea pig. For them he was only a subject, which must give them the information they needed. They were working with his memories without any esteem. Even of of the faces in the beginning of the film reminds me a skull - without eyes, white and in the dark. Eyes are very important things in the film - if they are hidden something is wrong - for example the eyes of the experimenters are often in the dark and the eyes of the girl when she was afraid were black. Furthermore the eyes of the main hero were hidden during the experiment. This reminds me the Clockwork Orange by S. Kubrick, this scene with suffering and eyes emphasis.
This cruel film is full of love, which is the only light ray in La Jetée. The love made the man return to the girl, the love made him stop helping the experimenters, the love made him live again. But nobody can escape Time and he died.
The war destroyed everything, it made rats from the people, who were only trying to survive. The girl was outside of the war. She was himself before it, she was living with that little boy from the Past, she was from another world. We can understand it when he didn't answer her question about his necklace which was connected with the war. "He invents an explanation" because he didn't want her felt or even touched "the war". But the experimenters didn't think about it, they wanted the war went to the calm Past. This changed the Time and made her afraid and took away her laugh. He was a Ghost for alive people from the Past but only till the end. When he chose her and the Life, he died as an alive man. It was a mistake to let the experimenters got to the Past. They were like a poison which spoiling the Peace. The experimenter was on the runway and he was watching the man dying. After this the war began.
The music is very powerful too. It is a bit scary, but with it helps you to see the story and it doesn't matter that the pictures don't move. The sound of music reminds me the work of a engine or a strange mechanism. It makes you waiting, makes you heart beats faster. The music is dead too - it's the first time I listen to cruel and ruthless music (maybe except of the Shining theme) which is coming closer and closer and you can't escape of it. Each photo in this film is very powerful, it is beautiful and can exist even without the film. But together with music they make the picture a genius one.
P.S. I agree that the film is bold (because people get used to watch films consist of videos but not photos) and avant-garde (speaking of art, it seems the film is surreal). But I don't think that "this movie is lacked of detailed", because there are a lot of little things and you can get everything that you want from this film.
The film is like an album of a man's photos - we are reading pages of his life. The life of the main hero without name (what signifies that he can be anybody, for example, you) was connected with his love - he saw the girl when he was a little boy, he was with her during the experiment and he died near her. As stated above everything is describes by the voice without any emotions, so the story can be told by one of experimentators, who are the only men without any emotions, who were working with the man like with a guinea pig. For them he was only a subject, which must give them the information they needed. They were working with his memories without any esteem. Even of of the faces in the beginning of the film reminds me a skull - without eyes, white and in the dark. Eyes are very important things in the film - if they are hidden something is wrong - for example the eyes of the experimenters are often in the dark and the eyes of the girl when she was afraid were black. Furthermore the eyes of the main hero were hidden during the experiment. This reminds me the Clockwork Orange by S. Kubrick, this scene with suffering and eyes emphasis.
This cruel film is full of love, which is the only light ray in La Jetée. The love made the man return to the girl, the love made him stop helping the experimenters, the love made him live again. But nobody can escape Time and he died.
The war destroyed everything, it made rats from the people, who were only trying to survive. The girl was outside of the war. She was himself before it, she was living with that little boy from the Past, she was from another world. We can understand it when he didn't answer her question about his necklace which was connected with the war. "He invents an explanation" because he didn't want her felt or even touched "the war". But the experimenters didn't think about it, they wanted the war went to the calm Past. This changed the Time and made her afraid and took away her laugh. He was a Ghost for alive people from the Past but only till the end. When he chose her and the Life, he died as an alive man. It was a mistake to let the experimenters got to the Past. They were like a poison which spoiling the Peace. The experimenter was on the runway and he was watching the man dying. After this the war began.
The music is very powerful too. It is a bit scary, but with it helps you to see the story and it doesn't matter that the pictures don't move. The sound of music reminds me the work of a engine or a strange mechanism. It makes you waiting, makes you heart beats faster. The music is dead too - it's the first time I listen to cruel and ruthless music (maybe except of the Shining theme) which is coming closer and closer and you can't escape of it. Each photo in this film is very powerful, it is beautiful and can exist even without the film. But together with music they make the picture a genius one.
P.S. I agree that the film is bold (because people get used to watch films consist of videos but not photos) and avant-garde (speaking of art, it seems the film is surreal). But I don't think that "this movie is lacked of detailed", because there are a lot of little things and you can get everything that you want from this film.
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