LA JETÉE directed by Chris Marker (France, 1962)
12 MONKEYS directed by Terry Gilliam (USA, 1995)
If you have a good story, you don’t need elaborate sets or A-list actors. This is probably why most Science Fiction works better in books or graphic novels than in big budget movies. These two movies illustrate this point perfectly.
They each tell the same story but in very different ways. In both, a time traveller is sent on a mission from the future to find the origin of a deadly virus that has all but wiped out the human race. Continue reading
