The 1966 film, La Jetee, is different from just about any movie you know of, yet it influenced a great handful of films you most likely have seen. It is not a "movie" in the typical sense of the word. It is actually comprised solely of still black and white photographs with narration as the only audio (I have read that there is actually one scene in which one of the people lightly blinks an eye, but I did not catch this). It only runs about 20 minutes or so, but still manages to tell the strange tale of a post-apocalyptic earth in which scientists have begun to research time-travel using the (unwilling) subjects' memories. A partial list of films influenced would be: Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, the Terminator, the Matrix and the most noted example, 12 Monkeys. If you want to see a pretty interesting short film, I would suggest you check it out.
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