You belike have n’t control La jetée . It ’s a eldritch , but interesting French short movie from the 60s , compile mostly of pic . It ’s almost a slideshow . I actually saw it during an English class ( weird , right-hand ? ) in college , and while it was interesting — intellectually stimulate even — I did n’t enjoy watch it . I ’m glad to have watch it , but that ’s not quite the same thing .
12 Monkeys , the 1995 feature cinema inspired by La jetée , on the other hand , is a rattling watch — and a great thing to have watched — all the way through ; it ’s a marvelous example of how an adaption can take confidential information from it ’s author textile , continue appropriately close , but create a new , uniquely interesting beast nonetheless .
For those of you who are n’t familiar , 12 Monkeys is a time - travel story asterisk Bruce Willis as half-“standard Willis badass , ” half-“scared manchild ” and Brad Pitt as an off - the - paries mental patient . Think way - less - cool - and - totally - disorder Tyler Durden . Willis , from a future where humanity is harry by a deadly virus , is repeatedly sent back in time to try and gain selective information about how to oppose the disease , all the while feed into this absolutely wonderful stable time - loop . There ’s more , but answer it to say you should just go see for yourself if you have n’t already . Or even if you have ; the flick holds up .
You cancheck it out on Netflix . And , if you ’re into it , the full 26 mo of La jetée are uncommitted on Vimeo . It ’s really interesting seeing how they fit together , but man I remember being tire with La jetée . Maybe I ’ll give it another shot . [ Netflix , Vimeo ]
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