Today in the Time Class, we watched a 1960’s French film called La Jetée. It was about a prisoner  who was used as a subject of an experiment about time travel. His key to the successful time travel was his memory from his childhood where he saw a woman at an airport right before he saw a man die. He could go back in time to find the woman from his memory and falls in love with her. But when the experiment ends with success, the prison guards decides to execute him. To run away from his fate, he once more goes back in time at the airport to find the woman he loves. But as he finds her at the airport, he finds out that one of the prison guards followed him to kill him. Then he realizes that the reason of this memory haunting him is because the man he saw dead when he was a child is in fact himself.

I thought this was a very interesting approach to making of film. We usually think of a film as a moving picture. But La Jetée was a film which was constructed by series of still shots (pictures) in black and white. When I heard about this film at first, I assumed that this would be a very boring movie because I am so used to watching all the movies with many movements and CGs. But actually this film had its own personality; because it was made of still shots, I could pay more attention to the details of the scene. The lack of movement in the film also made me to pay more attention to the sound. It was so amazing how I was so in to the movie even without the busy movement. Somebody in my class mentioned that it was almost like seeing a visuals in your head while reading a book, which I agreed.