La Jetée Comments

  • Constantin 2022-12-11 12:21:25

    Chris Mark, I took the knees of Gilliam and Cameron for you; the cold and alienated image, accompanied by the constant entanglement of memory and fate, accidentally turned it into an inevitable fate; a short dynamic scene of Helen is...

  • Rudy 2022-12-02 19:13:12

    It's not simply looking at pictures and talking, but it's like a PPT but has no mechanical sense. I still use the film techniques of zoom in, fade in/out, but the power of the text alone is already shocking, as broad and gentle as Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths". Frames of black and white pictures seem to be disturbed fragments of memory, but which time and space do they belong to? Later sci-fi films are unparalleled at the...

  • Electa 2022-11-20 13:11:40

    "Twelve Monkeys" should have traveled back to the 1960s, and then let "Dike" witness its death in vengeance on the grounds that it was presented through coherent images and special effects - science fiction limited "Dike"'s imagination, the latter " High concept "born in stop-motion images and Kafka-esque narrative texts, the "audio-visual" qualities are limited, so consciousness can flow indefinitely, and a woman blinks in a certain frame, all can be identified as...

  • Jannie 2022-11-09 18:25:14

    It's better that Uncle Li is black: this is obviously slide art! The teacher actually confessed that he had watched [Shocked Face (σ`・д・)σ ] many times in the archives and the English version [Those who try to practice listening are so sad....

  • Kiana 2022-11-09 04:18:10

    The so-called style, in the final analysis, is the way the creator observes and understands things. The style of [Dike] is Proustian, and its pictures present not real events, but memories of events, which are at a distance from the audience. So Chris Marks freezes them, leaving viewers thirsty for moving images, trapped in fragments from the past, constantly reminded of the unstoppable passage of time and the fragility of...

  • Icie 2022-10-06 10:20:57

    The left bank's stubbornness about the memory problem probably stems from the war. French intellectuals deeply influenced by Bergson asked after the war how on earth we can maintain memory on the ruins of history. The narrative of Dyke is clearly divided into two parts: the present story paragraph using the past tense and the time travel paragraph using the present tense. This reminds us that all time travel is nothing but the movement of one's memory. The final annular timeline allows the main...

  • Alexzander 2022-10-02 13:57:59

    One of the interesting things about watching smart people make movies is that their films of different genres and techniques have a "final proposition", and he opens countless trails that eventually lead you to a real feast. In this film, at the beginning, Chris Mark created a suspension between the opposites of time and space, past and future, and dream reality, and the audience could not break him. Just follow him and feel it. But at a crucial moment, he opened the fence a little - the girl...

  • Trystan 2022-09-19 23:48:44

    Those four seconds of eyes, this is not a photo collection, it is a movie, it is just a still art, it is a real montage art, the sound effect and the narration design replace the moving image and the editing together to form the unique rhythm of the film And poetic, perfect except for being...

  • Alice 2022-09-08 19:03:38

    I really haven't given every inch of my neuron, every cell, every detail of my soul to a piece of light, video and audio. A film made with countless still images, sound effects and narration, the apocalyptic plot, the time-shifted encounter, the rhythm between the pictures, and some neurotic shots and unsettling music, it's simply fantastic. Tears came unknowingly when I watched it. @UCCA on the last day of...

  • Nick 2022-09-05 04:09:32

    It feels that the whole film is not actually for the moment when the gunshots sound, but for the moment when the woman wakes up and starts blinking. Shocked 2018.8.10 Rewatch. This is actually a meta movie. If people can enter any time, time will become a fragment, a "edit", and a non-linear image. At the same time, it is also idealistic, because the existence of the world relies on consciousness, the essence of time travel is consciousness travel, and time and space exist in consciousness....

Extended Reading

La Jetée quotes

  • Narrator: [English version] Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.

  • Narrator: [English version] Above ground, in Paris, as in most of the world, everything was rotten with radioactivity. The victors stood guard over a kingdom of rats.

La Jetée

Director: Chris Marker

Language: French,German Release date: February 16, 1962

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