La Jetee is a short film with many issues surrounding the action of travelling through time, including a time paradox. Time travel is central to this film's events, as the complications that result from it form its plot. Rather than focusing on technology, gadgetry and hard science, this film shows the intense mental pressures that a traveller is subject to when moving through time.
The largest problem with travelling through time is one of mental hardiness; most people simply can not do it, since it is too confusing for the brain. Travelling through time is equivical to being born again in a new time, and brings insanity to those who have not been properly conditioned. Conditioning comes through fixation on and reinforcement of strong memories, such as H's obsession with a memory from his childhood where he watched a man get shot and killed. This memory is evidence of the ultimate time paradox; when H makes his final trip back through time, he is shot and killed -- and sees himself as a child, looking on.
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A time travel experiment being performed on H. |
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