La Jetée
Film is a beautiful coming together of literature, art, theater, and music. And La Jetee is a film that strips itself as a medium down to the bare bones. A series of still images, assisted only by narration and music, clocking in at only 28 minutes long, La Jetee is still somehow more beautiful, heartfelt, and just straight up better at storytelling than 90% of movies coming out today. The images that are locked in place melt away as our imaginations are asked to fill in the gaps. 583
The limitations bestowed on this film forces <PERSON> as a filmmaker to find new clever ways of storytelling, and in the process makes the message and impact astronomically stronger. That's what good filmmaking is.
It says that they time travel in this film, but it never ever feels that way. The melancholic music transports and dissolves us back in time into this dreamlike moment, but it never gives up its sense of it being a memory that we can never fully grasp. La Jetee feels like a dream we never want to wake up from, and when we do, we'll go right back to sleep hoping to go right back. If and whenever somebody invents time travel, i bet that they did it not to kill <PERSON>, or to stop the cause of deadly pandemic, but because they yearned for their own distant past memory. 529