film review la Jetee

The film La Jetee is a 28 minute long film composed of many images that tell a story of a man time travels trough his past and future. its an experimental time traveling film which is based in France in the post nuclear war. The film is made in black and white. if you do not read up on it then its hard to understand what all the pictures mean.

the story is of a man marked by an image of his childhood. its about the man being an experiment. "He film emphasizes the illusion of time lapse and movement perceived both by the characters within the film and the audience of the film."(Ignoramous: 2014)

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the film is remarkable actually telling the story of a man seeing his past. the narrative of the film works well cutting up the images a telling the audience whats going on. as it being just an assort  of pictures and one actual moving scene in the middle of a woman blinking.

with the pictures you get a sense of them moving as we now days are use to films having movement seeing this was strange and different. and you just want to see a far more intense film with movement and go more in depth about time travel. as it was quite hard to understand. if i didn't read up on it. I wouldn't have known that this was a film about experimental time travel.

the images were done well and are very clear read. you can tell that the fist shot is an airport.

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the film itself is based at an airport. and is about of death of someone. the main character is taken to an underground based and is experimented on. Trying to do time travel. where it is successful and he travels to his childhood to the present day. A woman always appears in the shots who he believes is the victim of the death. near the end of the film he finds out that he is actually the one who dies and Death comes and takes him away.This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.” That’s the opening (the first voice) of Chris Marker’s film. The phrase broaches a story (the hero will travel in time toward that childhood image); the destruction of cities and the devastation of the earth’s surface (smith:1995)

illustration 

figure 1 Ned Schantz, (2015), girl 

 http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/image007.jpg

figure 2 Evan Kindley, (2010), Airport 

 http://notcoming.com/reviews/lajetee2

bibliography

 Ignoramous Lamos (2014) Filmlies

http://filmslie.com/chris-marker-la-jetee-analysis-temporality/

Smith Paul  (1995) The Enigmatic Body, ed. and trans. Paul Smith, Cambridge Univ. Press,

http://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-2/jean-louis-schefer-on-la-jete/