Some scattered viewing notes can not constitute a complete film review.
Tati uses low-saturated blue-gray tones, lines and blocks to form the main visual system, and the layering of the space in the painting is deliberately emphasized by artificially constructed partitions, just like a soulless and orderly building. The cold cage, but it is transparent at the same time, as if being displayed. People of all colors move in the space, you can't ingest the soul at all, they are dolls manipulated by invisible giant hands.
In contrast, the melodious soundtrack that appears from time to time has reached an audiovisual conflict of ideologies. A variety of exaggerated and absolutely amplified sound effects produced by actions provide a part of comedy and an urban sound field that feels noisy (cars, chaotic voices, etc.). The entire sound system is extremely rich, but on the contrary, it is completely out of order.
Visual barrenness and auditory clutter constitute a set of contrast relationships, but their combination can serve the same theme: the crisis of modernization.
In camera scheduling, the angle of view is omniscient, but most of the time it is controlled in the part of the space, like pieces of jigsaw puzzles scattered around. The integrity of the space is gradually born with the actions of the characters. The whole movie is composed entirely of audiovisual.
The silent film of one of the scenes in the middle of the scene is handled very well. In a fixed lens facing the building, through 4 transparent floor-to-ceiling glass walls, four completely different but identical scenes are staged. We can't hear them in detail. what. Just like the TV market, lifeless and mechanical.
If the film is just like the first half, it is just an excellent "social criticism" film.
The second half is the beginning of it becoming a miracle. The original orderly space of the restaurant was slowly disrupted with the movements, and the array of furnishings gradually became invisible. The original uniform color was captured by the intruding crowd like stippling on a canvas, and they began to dance.
As Mr. Yu Luo missed and "broke" the "ceiling", the panic appeared and was skipped in the shortest time, and people's real Play Time officially began. The range of actions is getting bigger and bigger, and the internal rationality of the individual is gradually lost along with the destruction of order and space. On the second day, the world began to have colors, music became more joyous, and the city became an amusement park.
In the end, only sporadic lights remained, like stars and the universe.
When you watch the entire movie, you will find that the final assembled whole is like a huge installation art. The previous viewing behavior is an exploration of the installation from the part. And this whole also constitutes a metaphorical space. The practical modernist design is denied by repeated humorous passages. Consumerism is even more clearly attacked by various visual symbols (neon strips, various commodities).
It's exactly the best kind of movie in my mind.
However, the box office of this movie was very bleak when it was released that year.
So it does not belong to the people at that time, it is cherished by us now, and it will be cherished by people in the future.
It will always be immortal and will always belong to the modern era.
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