Dike, a 1962 experimental sci-fi short film.
(A movie I like very much, Amway contains spoilers)
The film tells the story of survivors who were manipulated by those in power as time-travel experiments after World War III. In the process of traveling back to the past, the male protagonist falls in love with a young woman who happened to witness the death of a strange man in his childhood. At the same time, he obtains an invitation letter from the future world in the future experiment, but in the end, he recklessly abandons the future and the present, and only The story of chasing a loved one in order to return to the memories of the past.
Inspired by "Twelve Monkeys", the whole film is only 30 minutes long. The whole film was shot with black and white film camera and played in PPT mode. The style is pure and strong, and the perspective of memory that is broken and stumbling.
Many people say that the most surprising thing is a subjective, Proustian love-themed sci-fi film, but I personally think that the heroine image in the whole drama is just an "anchor point" in the retrospective process for the male protagonist. .
In the face of the barrenness of reality and the falsehood of the future, only the past is reassuring. It's just that this seems to be enough to create all the romantic and brave love and desires of human beings, which is precisely the anchor of all human superstitions.
The male protagonist tried to fall in love with a woman who lived in the past by escaping reality, and returned to the peaceful life of the past to gain love and freedom. In the end, he found that the woman was only the anchor of his destiny on that occasion, and the real witness was not the heart. What you want is your own destiny.
There is only one outcome for him: to meet fate by avoiding it.
Very interesting thing, the whole film has 4 seconds of moving images. Some people say that it is because the director is too short of money, whether it is or not, this blink of the soul is the finishing touch that goes beyond the script:
"It all seems so real."
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