Cole and Kathryn slip into a dark movie theater to hide in the film "12 Monkeys". What classic film is playing in the theater?

In the 1995 film "12 Monkeys," when you follow it, it involves a time travel paradox. James Cole (Bruce Willis) and the woman, Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), hide out in a movie theater playing Hitchcock's "Vertigo." Later, in their own lives, they replay the key scene from "Vertigo," with the same music on the soundtrack.

This 1995 movie seems to be a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is often inadequate. Thus this film may be called cold, dark, and damp. Even the romance between Willis and Stowe feels desperate rather than joyous.

Terry Gilliam as the director of the film is not simply providing movie in-jokes with his film's story. His key point is to tell us that Cole's own life is caught between rewind and fast-forward. Cole finds himself repeating in the past what he learned in the future, and vice versa.

So, the film is not a comedy. But, as entertainment, it does appeal to a person's mind. When you sit down to watch it, you can find that it is constantly surprising and consistently unsettling. "12 Monkeys" which is inspired by the French short film "La Jetée" (1962) is about the characters here who are haunted by dark images and thoughts of their own death just as in "La Jetée."