The film uses completely still images to tell a post-apocalyptic story. By then nuclear war had broken out and humanity was left with only a handful of fruits left, and a man became an experiment in time travel because he could recall something from his childhood. After a period of training and adaptation, he was sent back to the past, the eve of the nuclear war. He meets a woman ashore at The Jetty and falls in love with her. Towards the end of the experiment, a high-ranking race came to visit him, giving him a chance to fast-forward into the future and escape the catastrophe; but he refused, instead asking to stay in the past forever and be with the woman he loves.
La Jetée movie plot
2022-06-12 22:57
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Narrator: [English version] This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood. The violent scene which upset him, and whose meaning he was to grasp only years later, happened on the main pier at Orly, Paris Airport, sometime before the outbreak of World War Three.
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Narrator: [English version] Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.