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Eddie 2022-11-14 09:26:20

It's a very simple story, with some sci-fi touches. It draws people into suspense from the very beginning, but doesn't tell it until the last moment.
A film that attracted me very much. The shooting techniques are very experimental. In fact, it is not a movie. Instead, it is like a slideshow of black and white images. The narrator shows us those pictures with perfect composition, while telling us about the simple and a little complicated. s story.
In addition to the narrating voices, there are occasional mutterings, as if they were in a dialogue, and the pictures switched from far to near, smooth and calm, so they connected the still pictures into a flowing story.

Go back to the past and travel to the future.
time constraints.
When I was young, I often thought about this kind of question. Is it because the bigger the person, the less curiosity?

Buried under such a sci-fi theme is actually just a simple love story. Appointments, static, fluid appointments. He went back to the past time and time again to date the girl who was deeply imprinted in his memory.
Science fiction has also become a bit vulnerable here, and even takes us into the vicious circle of philosophy. Beginning and ending, finally beginning. A circle, absolutely closed circle.
Not so warm story, but gave me a very warm aftertaste. Presumably, Chris Mark spoke about some of the questions I pondered as a young boy but finally discarded it.

Many years later, he realized that the death that changed his destiny he witnessed as a child was himself.
You see, this is a circle. Actually, I am very confused as to why the title is called "Dike".

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La Jetée quotes

  • Narrator: Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.

  • [first lines]

    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.