La Jetée works
well as a short film. Using only still images and brief narration an invoking
story of time travel, romance, and destiny delicately unfolds. Time overlaps in
the film’s conclusion as the protagonist re-lives his childhood memory; only
this time he is no longer a child but the man who dies. Perhaps, La Jetée is theorizing that there is no
past, present, or future. Time can overlap because it is ever changing and
developing. In this theory, time cannot be expressed as streamline and forever
moving forward because it is multi-directional and overlapping. The photos may
represent how we perceive time as a series of fleeting moments never to be
lived again. Our faulty perception of time is being expressed through the
photos that make up the film.
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