Gesamtkunstwerk! !

Kira 2022-01-12 08:01:44

Regardless of subjective emotions, who would have thought that a comical comedy is one of the most complicated, crazy, and magnificent works in art history. The behind-the-scenes construction of giant installation art creates an experience that I can’t match with the integration of architecture and exhibits in all my contemporary art museums. After watching the movie, I was so immersed in the brainstorming that I was so sleepy after watching it. That night I even had a strange dream of watching the movement of the steel machine in a similarly cool train station scene, to the point where I needed to subconsciously taste ( laugh)

Sure enough, it is an advanced movie of "another planet" combined with deep focus and IMAX frame. It uses an absolute, almost analogous to "control theory" rational control to show the macroscopic irony of Cybernetic Capitalism. The details are as if the lines are The means of environmental sound emerge in endlessly, thus gradually building a three-dimensional utopia that focuses on a world/system instead of traditional characters. In the unique activity space and music rules, it allows countless free and interesting minimalist facial audiovisual element models to dance. General interaction, which cuts time and space in exchange for synchronization, makes events "occur" and the subject and object of observation continue to rotate and iterate. Various instinctive exaggerations will inevitably produce complex comedies; and then every time the space is cramped to the point where it is unable to prevent time from perceiving the regression line Sex has caused its "game of life" to be on the verge of a natural disorder, so it uses strong scenes, colors, light and shadow, geometry and other "parameters" intervention to smoothly and smoothly pull it back to the core track of film aesthetics. This is the consciousness. In the understatement, the intertextuality of form and content is actually completed, and memories that are both cold and bright, both ironic and warm are picked up again. It is far from a simple installation experiment or even contemporary inferior VR/game "movie" comparable... In this sense, this can be regarded as the spiritual source of the DAU project, which is truly humanistic care-oriented, and a timeless masterpiece!

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Extended Reading
  • Lydia 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    There is a lot of traffic, bustling, lively, and colorful. In ancient times, Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and today, Mr. Yu Luo went to Paris. It's a bit loud, a bit funny, a bit fanciful, a bit surreal, a bit like a large-scale stage play with precise scheduling.

  • Krystel 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    A+. I thought that the division of space in the first half had reached its peak, but I didn't expect that a restaurant scene was used in the second half to film the whole process of modern society from order to disorder. If "My Uncle" still intends to portray characters, "Play Time" uses a deep focus lens to eliminate the distinction between primary and secondary, and completely restores people to "unknown people" in the huge picture. Comedy originates from the absurdity in spatial relationships: either twisted (corridor that is too long to walk), or partitioned (a single room in a square office, watching TV is like a partition), or misplaced (the waiter pours wine like watering flowers on his head) , the light plate is shaped like the halo above the priest’s head). Vitrification becomes a ubiquitous and intricate order structure, and people and objects are compressed into particles in a kaleidoscope. What is displayed and seen is the image reflected through the glass. Coincidentally, when Hulot smashed the glass door, it was the image that experienced a shift in tone. From straight lines to curves, cold to overheated, comical to maintain order to catharsis of throwing order away, the film shows the same spiritual beliefs that Fellini shared: the essence of life is confusion, chaos, and the revelry of accepting them.

Playtime quotes

  • Barbara, Young Tourist: How do you say "drugstore" in French?

    Monsieur Hulot: Drugstore.

  • Monsieur Hulot: [in English, to Barbara] I'll be back.

    Old Woman 1: [in French] What's that mean?

    Old Woman 2: [in French] I've no idea. Can't they use French?