Chris Marker's 1962 short film "La letée" was modified by Terry Gilliam in 1995 to become the feature-Mlength blockbuster "12 Monkeys. Instead of calling his own dystopian narrative a movie, Marker called it a photo book. The film consists of a number of still photos with voiceovers. It has a detached narrator who seems unconcerned with the current situation, which lends a more remote air to a tale about nostalgia for the past. Similar to La Jetée, 12 Monkeys was created by fans of the film and is a purposeful, reverent reworking of Marker's original plot, themes, and concepts. La Jetée is a fascinating Tow-Fi sci-fi time-travel story told in these vignettes, in which a Parisian World War 3 survivor is transported back in time to save mankind before the earth was radioactively destroyed. This editing was exceptional because of its high-concept, action-focused nature. The nameless man in 12 Moneys is chosen because of how tightly he holds onto a picture, such as a childhood memory or the face of a woman on an airport dock. This is a picture book, not a photo album, of course. La Jetée's strength comes from the way the pictures and sounds flow together.
The entire movie is, in essence, a meditation on the passage of time and the established link between Marker's continuous obsession and irage-making. In the movie, he genuinely displayed his talents for photography, visual art, and cinematography. In both movies, the main characters escape their restrictions and travel across time, yet they do it without any agency or control. They genuinely just have ephemeral moments and distant memories to treasure with someone who cannot relate to them.
Despite the concept and climatic twist, Marker seems to be least interested in the narrative. Here's where 12 Monkeys comes in; Gilliam and the authors create a riddle that needs to be solved, Like La Jetee, the movie will reach its conclusion with the revelation that the boy saw his own adult death,
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