La Jetée (1962) IMBd - 8.3/10 stars Director - Chris Marker Stars - Etienne Becker, Jean Negroni, Helene Chatelain Production Company - Argos Films “This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.” That’s the narrated opening of Chris Marker’s film. The hero will travel in time toward that childhood image, the destruction of cities and the devastation of the earth’s surface have threatened the very reality of the present and have thus let loose temporal virtualities normally locked up or held captive in the past (the past consisting only of a series of images that have become autonomous, tied to the living only by some affect or trauma).
La Haine: SCENE 1: - lower : seen as low in the social heirachy - surrounded by bars : viewed as criminal, trapped - only filmed when they become aggressive -There is a high angle and low angle shot (180 degree) suggesting this is a broken frame. It suggests how the boys are looked down upon by the news crew and due to the position of the rail showing the binary between them. Furthermore, it conveys how the main characters are caged in and due to their violent and defensive attitude it makes them appear to be wild animals and need to be locked in a cage. (Suggesting that people from different backgrounds belong in poverty compared to the rest of the French - linking in with context) -The close up of the needle on the floor by Hubert's feet is an iconography associated with crime. -There is irony employed "We're the Future" - inside the estate there is no future. Mise en scene Hospital setting Filled with photographers standing opposite the thr
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