"The dissolve is synchronized with the sound. The rhythmic patterns of the soundtrack act as a framework to add to the intensity of the film. The sound used in this production is minimal, showing up in the form of narration, Orchestral score and sound effect. Terry Gilliam, director of 12 Monkeys, describes the editing as "simply poetic" in the combination of editing and soundtrack that is used in the short film.Īs the film plays out as a photomontage, the only continuous variable is the sound. With the use of cut-ins and fade-outs, it produces the eerie and unsettling nature adding to the theme of the apocalyptic destruction of World War III. The editing of La Jetée adds to the intensity of the film. The scene in which the hero and the woman look at a cut-away trunk of a tree is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo which Marker also references in his 1983 film Sans soleil. The story is told by a voice-over narrator. The film has no dialogue aside from small sections of muttering in German and people talking in an airport terminal. The stills were taken with a Pentax Spotmatic and the motion-picture segment was shot with a 35 mm Arriflex. It contains only one brief shot (of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up) originating on a motion-picture camera, this due to the fact that Marker could only afford to hire one for an afternoon. La Jetée is constructed almost entirely from optically printed photographs playing out as a photomontage of varying rhythm.
In his final moments, he comes to understand that the incident he witnessed as a child, which has haunted him ever since, was his own death.
However, as he rushes to her, he notices an agent of his jailers who has followed him and realizes the agent is about to kill him. He is more concerned with locating the woman, and quickly spots her. He is returned to the past, placed on the jetty at the airport, and it occurs to him that the child version of himself is probably also there at the same time. He is contacted by the people of the future, who offer to help him escape to their time permanently but he asks instead to be returned to the pre-war time of his childhood, hoping to find the woman again. Upon his return, with his mission accomplished, he discerns that he is to be executed by his jailers. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the far future. He meets the woman from his memory, and they develop a romantic relationship. He did not understand exactly what happened, but knew he had seen a man die.Īfter several attempts, he reaches the pre-war period. The scientists eventually settle upon the protagonist his key to the past is a vague but obsessive memory from his pre-war childhood of a woman ( Hélène Châtelain) he had seen on the observation platform ("the jetty") at Orly Airport shortly before witnessing a startling incident there. Scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods "to call past and future to the rescue of the present." They have difficulty finding subjects who can mentally withstand the shock of time travel. A man (Davos Hanich) is a prisoner in the aftermath of World War III in post-apocalyptic Paris, where survivors live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries.
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