But how many people have noticed every sound that is carefully crafted and delivered to our ears? Thanks to the Shanghai International Film Festival, I can enjoy this "classic" in the cinema this time. The ticket is from Cathay Pacific. I don't know whether it is the location or something. There are many audiences who come in with the obvious ticket delivery. There are junior high school students who keep delivering puffed food in their mouths, middle-aged couples who take a walk in the street in the afternoon, and those who answer the phone and comment loudly. Most of the time during the screening, the noise on the screen comes from off the screen. Accompanied by the noise of all kinds of people, and all kinds of behaviors, although a little annoying, they echo the movies well.
In the film, when Jacques Tadi waited under the office building to receive his husband, the husband walked from the other side of the corridor of the building to the foreground where Tadi was. The whole process was a still shot with considerable depth of field. At least 20 seconds, plus the rhythmic, loud sound of shoes stepping on the polished marble floor, the whole scene is dry and mechanical. Someone on the scene couldn't bear it, and loudly questioned the director's necessity to film the entire process, which they had never encountered before in their previous movie-watching experience. Rather than saying it is unnecessary, this is completely true. Instead of us being the Tadi waiting for someone there, we have to endure this boring and endless process. Audiences spoiled by Hollywood's "continuous editing" by the constant rhythm of "blockbuster films" are unwilling to admit the fact that the modern society we live in is so boring.
An office like a matrix chessboard, ubiquitous glass walls, glass doors, and many overwhelming machine buttons... How practical are those weird new inventions? Is it advanced or absurd? Tadi described and mocked "modernity" in the first half of the movie. Humans created machines and buildings against humans, and the prosperous movie made us forget real life. Is this considered "modern"?
It wasn't until the second half was in the dining room that the brilliance of humanity was revealed. The scene is still located in a modern, more "surreal", but the order is disrupted. It looks like a farce, but it actually liberates people from the shackles of modernity: the glass door is gone, and there is a round handle and a door opener left. The door that symbolizes the barrier is gone, so everyone is equal, and everyone enters. Restaurant: Whether it's a pretentious nobleman, or a drunkard, a worker, or even a hippie in flared pants. The restaurant completely out of control is what society should have been: harmony, equality, and full of vitality.
In the end, the angularity of the matrix office became a circle of cars turning around the garden in the middle of the street. In the natural world we live in, there are few square or rectangular objects. Such rules are indifferent and human beings do it for themselves: the door that can go to the sound, the large French windows of transparent apartments, countless buttons... and the circle in nature... There are too many shapes, the sun is round, and the human mind is round. There is nothing wrong with modern life. What is wrong is that we use it to annihilate our own freedom and rights as human beings. The last street lamp looked like a huge monster stretching out its tentacles, but if compared with a small flower and grass, the reinforced concrete was softened, and the dazzling electric light was calm. Only when modern and natural are juxtaposed, modern is lovely.
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