Three Points of View on "Game Time"

Harley 2022-01-12 08:01:44

1. All the behaviors and words are very strange, and the characters in the film are doing these things very seriously and saying these things. This is the source of Tati's comedic effect. As for some friends who say that in fact, nothing in the world is worth doing seriously. People’s life itself is a big comedy. It’s more opinionated, and it’s a little bit out of the topic of this film, so I won’t say much. Up.

2. The screen is full of silver-gray tone. The Eiffel Tower is a yellowish pointed building among a pile of silver-gray buildings. Listening to the soundtrack carefully, you will find that the sounds that are generally processed as background sounds are dominant in this film, such as footsteps, cars, and bustling streets. The conversation between the characters is weakened. Since it is "Game Time", we might as well subvert those juggling to the end.

3. Although everyone in the film communicates with each other, they are basically on the surface. They seem to talk repeatedly, but in fact they are separated from each other. At the end of the film, the two narrative clues, the American female tourist and the fool played by Tati himself, meet. The emotions shown by the two are more real and no longer resemble the stereotyped words and deeds of other people in the film. Behave like that. Although it is difficult for me to call it such a profound truth, it seems a little bit like vanilla in it, which is a bit interesting.

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Extended Reading
  • Lizzie 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Wonderful group play scheduling, carousel-like traffic flow, wonderful world in the mirror, still unchanging irony, interesting life, different sides

  • Idella 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    Jacques Tati’s classic works still seem forward-looking. The cold steel glass labyrinth with the main color of blue and gray, the application of glass reflection (Eiffel, Sacred Heart, Arc de Triomphe); exquisite group play and scene scheduling, shot on 70mm film in the old "Tati Village", information content It's huge and needs to be watched many times; cool humor emerges endlessly, and the dining room scene is very exciting; the playground carousel flow; the tourists in the shaking mirror and the screaming dubbing. (9.0/10)

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?