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Maureen 2022-06-12 17:54:20

【embankment】

This is a story about a man,

Marked by an impression from his childhood

It was a scene of violence that disturbed him,

And it will take years for him to grasp the implications

It happened on the observation deck at Paris Orly Airport

years before the outbreak of the third world war

Sunday, parents with children

Go to Orly Airport to watch the planes take off

on this special sunday

children in this story

will always remember

The frozen sun

sunset at the end of the observation deck

and a woman's face

Memories are no different from ordinary moments

only when those moments leave scars

you will really remember them

That face, be him

The only impression of peacetime

let him survive the war

He often suspects,

Have you really seen it yourself?

maybe it's just him

fictional tender moments

to fight the crazy moment that followed

a sudden roar

woman gesture

wrinkled body

and the crowd shouting in panic

Later he knew

Witnessed the death of a man

twenty four

00:03:23

Before long,

Paris is destroyed

many people died

Some see themselves as winners

Others are treated as prisoners

The survivors moved to the tunnels under the Chayou Palace

on the ground,

Paris, like most of the world,

full of radiation, uninhabitable

Winners watch over their 'rat' empire

Prisoners are used as experimental subjects

This experiment is obviously closely related to leaders

The experiment results disappointed the experimenter

For the experimental subjects,

or die

go crazy

One day they will be taken from the prisoners

Pick a new white mouse

He is the protagonist of the story

he is afraid

He heard about the leader of the experiment

and prepare to face

mad scientist

or Dr. "Frankenstein"

(created Frankenstein)

However, in front of him

is a rational person

explain to him

Humanity is doomed to perish.

space no way

the only hope of survival

in time

Through a time loophole,

maybe get food,

medicine, energy

This is the purpose of the experiment

Send messengers into time...

Summoning past and future

save now

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00:08:04

But the human mind cringes

to wake up at another time

means as an adult

reborn once

The impact is too big

in the inanimate or unconscious body

delivered to different time periods

The experimenter now focuses on

In people with strong spiritual imagery

if they could imagine

Or dream about another time

maybe they can live in it

Prison guards even spy on him in his dreams

he was chosen

because he was passed

an impression haunted

First, he is currently

All consciousness must be stripped

The experiment continues

he is not dead

not crazy

he suffers

they continue

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00:11:05

on the tenth day

The image gradually emerges like a confession

a peaceful morning

A peacetime bedroom

real bedroom

real kids

real bird

real cat

real grave

On day 16,

he is on the observation deck

nothing

Sometimes he feels happy days

but not like this

a happy face

but not like this

remains

one might be

the woman he is looking for

He walked past her on the observation deck

she smiles at him in the car

More images emerge,

Intertwined

Museum

Maybe it's the museum he remembers

On the 30th day,

they met

Now he must know her

In fact, it might be

The only thing he can be sure of

In this world without time

The first thing that surprised him was abundance

all around him

surprising things

glass, plastic, flannel

flannel

when he came back

that woman is gone

Experimenters tightened control

sent him back

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00:14:07

Time turns back to that moment

This time she was close to him

he talks to her

She welcomes it unsurprisingly

They have no memory,

No plan

The establishment of time did not cause them pain

their only mark

was the feeling at the time

and the mark left on the wall

Later they came to a garden

He remembered there was a garden

she asked about his necklace

the battle necklace

He has been wearing it since the day the war began

He made up an explanation

They stopped in front of an old redwood trunk

She said an English name

he didn't understand

Like a dream, he heard himself

Point to the other side of the tree and say to her:

""That's where l come from"

"I'm from there"

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00:16:03

Then back to modern times,

tired

Then another time wave hit him

Maybe he got another shot

Now she's asleep in the sun

He feels that in his

while leaving

she died

she wakes up

he talks to her again

Facts are hard to believe

He only mentions the important parts:

a distant country

a long journey

she listened without laughing

Is this the same day?

he has absolutely no idea

They will go on like this

a trust without words

will arise between the two

a pure trust

no memories, no plans

until he feels

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00:17:52

There is an obstacle ahead

Thus, the first phase of the experiment ended

This was the beginning of a series of experiments,

He sees her at different times.

He met her when

There are no marks on the wall

she simply welcomes him

call him her ghost

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00:18:41

One day, she seemed afraid

One day she leaned on him

he didn't know

I want to be close to her...

still forced,

fictitious,

Or just a dream.

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00:20:02

About the 50th day,

they are in a

Taxidermy museum meet

Now they (laborers)

The accuracy of the perfected

they can send him

any specified time

And he can stay

light activity

She has adapted

She naturally accepted

This visitor has come and gone

Show up, talk...

laugh together,

silence, listen...

then disappear

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00:23:39

when back to the lab

He finds that things have changed

the leader is there

From their conversation he learned

The experiment of going back to the past has been successful

Now they're ready to send him to the future

The excitement made him forget for a while...

Encounter at the Museum

is the last time they meet

The future is more guarded than the past

After a few more painful attempts

He finally caught

some future time waves

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00:24:27

He came to a new planet

Paris was rebuilt

10,000 incomprehensible streets

others are waiting for him

this is a short chat

Apparently they reject this

Time and Space Invaders

He said:

Because humanity has survived

So they can't deny their past

Because that means their own survival

It's a sophistry disguised as fate

they gave him a power unit

strong enough to recover

all human industries

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00:25:33

Then the door to the future

close again

shortly after his return

was moved to another room in the prison

he knows the jailers

won't let him go

He is a tool in their hands

Childhood memories

is the bait that dominates him

He has lived up to their expectations

completed his task

Now he can only wait

erased memory

those deep in his mind

double life memory

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00:26:13

In the depths of this prison,

He receives a message from the future

They can also travel through time,

And easier.

there they are

ready to make him one of them

But he has other requests.

Compared to a better future world

He would rather go back

the world of my childhood

that woman

probably still waiting for him

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00:26:52

again

On the observation deck at Orly Airport

Now he can stay

This warm Sunday afternoon before the war…

He felt confused,

childhood self

It must be there now,

Watch the plane take off.

but he saw first

the woman's face

at the end of the viewing platform

he ran to her

And when he recognized that

man from prison

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00:27:38

he realized,

There's no way to escape time

And when I was young, I was destined to

The moment I saw...

that has been

The moments that haunt him...

it is himself

the end of life

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Extended Reading

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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