The narration throughout plays the role of explaining the plot and expressing feelings and thoughts. Synchronized with the text is the connection of slide-like stills or pictures to carry out visual narration. As a young art, film is always in an open state, it can accept various emerging techniques and expressions, and this attitude of continuous acceptance is also the greatest significance of experimental film. Chris Mark's use of pictures and narration to tell a love story under a sci-fi coat is very creative. Even if the pictures are removed, the narration alone can build an independent story. This is similar to Derek Jarman's "Blue", except that "Blue" is a personal mumbling state. The story of this film is set after the third world war, Paris is in ruins, people move underground, and the male protagonist is taken as a prisoner by those in power to do the experiment of time travel, and the past and the future can be visited. And in his childhood before the war, the male protagonist saw a woman and a man who was shot dead during a leisure activity with his family at the airport watching planes take off. The appearance of this woman was deeply etched in his memory. In today's time and space experiment, the male protagonist was able to go back to the past with his current appearance to meet the woman who was fascinated by his dreams, and communicated with him. They wandered and observed in the museum full of taxidermy, and women had gradually become accustomed to this man who appeared and disappeared at any time. The experiment of going back to the past was successful, and the experimental scientists sent him to the future. The future is built on a whole new planet, humanity has rebuilt Paris, and a new order is being established. The experiment in the future also succeeded. Men have no use value, so those in power plan to kill men. Humans in the future travel to the present and try to persuade men to go to the future with them, but men choose to go back to the past, back to childhood, and back to the future. Go to the airport where you see a woman for the first time, back to the moment when love was born. And the killer who followed him back to the past killed him the moment he ran to the woman. This is the moment when the man saw the killed man when he saw the woman at the airport in his childhood. The dead man is the future self. Such a concept of traveling through time and space, finding love, where the past and the future exist in the same time and space without knowing it, and the mystery is not revealed until the end has been repeatedly used in many subsequent horror and sci-fi movies. The film's way of expressing the story with a photo slideshow-style image is experimental and at the same time strengthens the texture of fragmented memory. Pieces of incoherent memory pictures (fragments) are spliced together, which is more in line with the way we evoke distant memories.
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