Terminale

[wombattery]

(See here for the rather amusing idea)

1955's confusing Terminale is not regarded as one of the Nouvelle Vague's high points. Ti and Ki, presented as missionaries from the future, are parallel unreliable narrators. Ki represents "the Apparatus," the regimented and possibly even robotic government of the future which is all that stands between

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[whswhs]

Oh, very elegant. I especially like the sustained evocation of Max Weber's iron cage as a more than merely physical threat.

Of course, the influence of Terminale on Twelve Monkeys should not be overlooked, though it was more at the level of ironic plot than of thematic ambiguity.