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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: [referring to The Woman's face] That face he had seen was to be the only peacetime image to survive the war. Had he really seen it? Or had he invented that tender moment to prop up the madness to come?

  • Narrator: He recited his lesson: because humanity had survived, it could not refuse to its own past the means of its survival. This sophism was taken for Fate in disguise.

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