Le Jetee vs. subtited films and Edward Muybridge

In watching Le Jetee, I couldn't help but see the parallels between the photo-based film and a subtitled one: both rely on the viewer to put each frame together and create a sense of flow and movement between scenes. Also, I appreciated the way Chris Marker used several different photos of the same subject matter in a row, to have the same effect of Edward Muybridge on animals: he gave the characters movement even though they were not actually moving on-screen. Specifically in the final scene, where the main character is running toward the end of the peir to reach the woman he loves, there is a fairly long series of photos that show him progressing down the pier, and then falling to his death. I think that by not showing the fluid movement, Marker was able to place more emphasis on his facial emotions, which are more important to the scene than seeing him actually run. Also, by showing him run in a series of photos, it was more dramatic to see him fall to his death, because the movement didn't offer a transition into his fall.