La Jetee
My appologies to my class for being behind. Allow me to begin catching up with my Narrative Analysis of La Jetee, a 1962 film created with still photos by Chris Marker.
La Jetee is set in a post-appocolyptic Paris after WWIII. Everyone, the ruling group and prisoners alike, lives underground away from the nuclear waste of the world. The rulers are using their prisoners as guinea pigs to test time travel in order to send someone to the future to understand what they need to do to survive. (I would like to stop you now if you haven't watched the film... spoilers ahead) I would like to argue that the precipitating event is when the scientists choose the main character for testing their time travel techniques. They choose him because he holds on tight to a memory of an event when he saw a man die which he can use to get himself into the past. I would say that this memory is not the trigger of events to come because it wouldn't have happened without their choosing of him, but now I'm at the end. Our leading man successfully finds himself back in time where he gets to spend time with a lady from his memory of the event. The scientists continue to send him back in time to test their time travel, and he is happy to continue going so he may spend more time with the woman he is falling in love with. The continued trips to the past represents our rising action. With the success of traveling into the past, the scientists are ready to send our hero to the future to find out their secret to survival. While traveling to the future is not as easy, he does make it and finds a group of people ready to hear his plea. They provide him with energy needed to restart the world's productivity (Climax!). On his return, our hero is sent back to prison now that the scientists have what they need. While he is dreaming of the lady from his past the people from the future travel back into time to visit him. They would like to take him with them, as he is their hero for being the one that provides the present with the needed energy to create the future they live in. However, he is only interested in returning to the lady in the past he has fallen in love with (resolution!). They send him to the past and he finds himself at the event he had held onto in his memory for so long. He realizes his young self is also present but he is only interested in finding the lady. As he is looking for her, he notices one of the scientists that he realizes has been following him through time all along. As the scientist kills him, he understands that it is his own death that was in this memory that had been so important to him (conclusion!).
La Jetee is set in a post-appocolyptic Paris after WWIII. Everyone, the ruling group and prisoners alike, lives underground away from the nuclear waste of the world. The rulers are using their prisoners as guinea pigs to test time travel in order to send someone to the future to understand what they need to do to survive. (I would like to stop you now if you haven't watched the film... spoilers ahead) I would like to argue that the precipitating event is when the scientists choose the main character for testing their time travel techniques. They choose him because he holds on tight to a memory of an event when he saw a man die which he can use to get himself into the past. I would say that this memory is not the trigger of events to come because it wouldn't have happened without their choosing of him, but now I'm at the end. Our leading man successfully finds himself back in time where he gets to spend time with a lady from his memory of the event. The scientists continue to send him back in time to test their time travel, and he is happy to continue going so he may spend more time with the woman he is falling in love with. The continued trips to the past represents our rising action. With the success of traveling into the past, the scientists are ready to send our hero to the future to find out their secret to survival. While traveling to the future is not as easy, he does make it and finds a group of people ready to hear his plea. They provide him with energy needed to restart the world's productivity (Climax!). On his return, our hero is sent back to prison now that the scientists have what they need. While he is dreaming of the lady from his past the people from the future travel back into time to visit him. They would like to take him with them, as he is their hero for being the one that provides the present with the needed energy to create the future they live in. However, he is only interested in returning to the lady in the past he has fallen in love with (resolution!). They send him to the past and he finds himself at the event he had held onto in his memory for so long. He realizes his young self is also present but he is only interested in finding the lady. As he is looking for her, he notices one of the scientists that he realizes has been following him through time all along. As the scientist kills him, he understands that it is his own death that was in this memory that had been so important to him (conclusion!).
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