Peut-être story
Peut-être (Maybe; Perhaps) is a 1999 French science fiction comedy film. After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie in a bathroom, Arthur discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future.
16 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| father and son | choice | The young man Arthur traveled into the future whereupon he met his future son, Ako, who was by then an old man. The story then follows Ako's attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate his girlfriend so that Ako and his progeny can continue to exist in the future. |
| what if I met my distant descendant | choice | The main novelty of the film concerns the young man Arthur meeting his future children and grandchildren after passing through a time portal. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Arthur and his girlfriend Lucie found themselves in a most strange predicament while attending a wild, all-night millennium party. |
| facing death | major | Ako was faced with the prospect of vanishing into thin air should he fail in his attempts to convince his son, Arthur, to impregnate his mother, Lucie. |
| personal life and death dilemma | major | Should Arthur impregnate his girlfriend or not? If he did, then his future son Ako and Ako's descendants would go on living happily in the future; otherwise they would cease to exist. |
| time traveler's dilemma | major | Ako traveled back in time to convince his father to impregnate his mother. If Ako failed, he and his descendants would cease to exist. |
| what if I found myself in the future | major | Arthur passed through a time portal to find himself 60 years in the future. Not only did he find the Paris of the future to be a sun-baked desert, but he also met his future son and grandchildren. |
| brother and sister | minor | Ako briefly quarreled with his sister Madeline. |
| father and daughter | minor | Ako introduced Arthur to Arthur's future daughter. Rosemonde tried to keep her crazy, gun-toting father under control. |
| gender bending | minor | Kader was initially surprised when the girl he was hitting on at the millennium party revealed herself to be (in her words) "a boy", but this was not ultimately a problem for Kader, and they hooked up after the party. |