Carefully crafted, well-stolen and reinterpreted, adding to the original...

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2019)

I remember watching this movie in high school, but I don't think I had the level of concentration back then, me being in my puberty, to fully grab the story. I watched this again yesterday and it's a wonderfully coherent painstakingly crafted story with rich wonderful characters and a smaller story that to me transcends the full scale of what we witness happen : the development of a relationship between the main character, mistaken for a mental patient, and his psychiatrist.
The main character, a future convict, seeks to gain pardon by accepting a forced "voluntary" mission to prevent the human race from being extinguished from the surface of the planet, forced to live underground like they now have been. It explores the same themes that the original, that I still have to watch, seems to explore - La JetÃ©e (1962). It doesn't just explore them, it does so well. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It hasn't aged a bit. I'm glad I'm not in my puberty anymore so I have a little less trouble actually getting it in full.
If you haven't seen it or if you have when you were young or even when you were older, this is a movie worth watching and watching again.