This crazy black comedy is different from all the comedies I have seen before. The monotonous color brings a huge sense of alienation to Paris. The cheerful and naughty music is like a tap dance that cannot be stopped for a moment to make you laugh, dubbing and pictures. The wonderful combination of adding a strong magical reality style to the film. Since it's "Playing Time", it doesn't seem to need any plots full of thoughtfulness. You only need to find your own H-spot or collective itching acupoints, and you can go from daytime to nighttime, completely unable to control the plan. What a carnival.
The protagonist wants to go to a certain building to find a certain supervisor, but by mistake, he can't be found. After going out, he ran into two classmates. The latter took him to the newly built nightclub. Here he met tourists from the United States. After a night of fun, he went back to each house to find his own mother. The H spot was there, and he never left.
The angle of view presented in the film is dominated by broad and large. Under the vast sky is a fortress-like office building with a constant flow of traffic and pedestrians; everyone in the nightclub is doing everything possible to relax and entertain others. The constant small problems make the whole nightclub. It has almost become a playground; in the building, from companies to exhibitions, from offices to sales, from proud locals, to curious foreigners everywhere, there is nothing but amusement. All kinds of situations always happen, and everything you are so serious and perfect is filled with an awkward smile.
The story can be divided into two paragraphs: the first paragraph tells that the actor tried his best to meet the supervisor, but he always missed it. The second paragraph is dominated by nightclub carnivals, but the newly built quality is not flattering. There are countless jokes. I personally like the first half very much. Although the whole film is dominated by dark gray monotones, the former story satirizes the indifference of human feelings caused by architecture in modern society more intense, and the latter story presents the false prosperity of modern society. Rundown. Comparing the two stories, there are many differences: the first half is mainly organized and indifferent, and architecture is an important factor in separating the warmth and coldness of human relationships; the latter is mainly scattered and lively, maintaining the black humor of friendship bubbles in a specific space. The two stories together form a ridiculous world where modern material life is developing rapidly, the city is like a circus, and people are like puppets. From the director's perspective, this city is always having fun.
When the protagonist came to the building to try to find the supervisor, the building was divided into countless rooms of the same shape in the exterior scene. Inside the rooms, similar compartments were planned for people in different positions and jobs, and people stayed in specific grids. , Wrapped in layers of compartments, perfectly avoiding other people, and perfectly avoiding the real world. Similar buildings lined up on the street, and similar cars parked neatly waiting for similar owners. People outside try to find the right compartment, people inside wait to walk to a bigger compartment. Following the hero's vacant pursuit, from the perspective of God, each compartment seems to be separated by a huge canyon. When the hero accidentally walks into the wrong room, the room full of people pushes it out with deathly silence.
In this environment where communication is not only focused on business opportunities and work, the sounds from the world are amplified to exaggeration. The more subtle the sound, the more it resembles a loud scream: the sound of opening a door, the sound of people sitting on a chair, the sound of chair restoration, and spraying. The sound of tanks, the sound of beating clothes, the sound of walking, the sound of clashing plates, the sound of flipping through paper, and so on. Even though the second half is filled with the inherent noise of the restaurant, it is basically just the familiar noise. There are very few lines in the film, and the expressions and actions of the actors support all the plot and jokes. The front and the back can be said to be mutually comparable and complementary. The same point is that no matter if people gather together, communication has almost become a blank area.
When the male protagonist wandered around and accidentally arrived at the exhibition area, it was very interesting to have a home selling doors. In the environment of the cubicle world, he invented an absolutely soundproof silent door, which not only opened and closed silently, but also had a soundproof effect. Qijia, it can almost be said that using this door to achieve the effect of perfect invisibility, I feel that the next step is to invent the invisibility cloak, and what this convenience shows is the distortion of psychological fear between people. Windows, doors, stairs and elevator handrails, and even railings on buses, all fix people within their own safety areas, and distinguish them with coldness from others.
Between the two stories, the male protagonist came to his friend’s house. This section is very silent. The audience outside the house can only see but can’t hear the sound inside the house. The transparent whole piece of glass tells what each household does. Presented to us, the actors used body language to show us the endless smiles of ordinary life. The characters are also quite distinctive. The vain husband, the hypocritical wife, the boring daughter, and the uncomfortable guests make it possible for the audience who can't hear the sound to make up for a black humorous drama.
Then a plot intensified this kind of silent laughter. People outside the house watched the four people in the house work together to carefully carry the ladder in the narrow area, and the good people played the classical music Persian Market with the harmonica outside the house (later adapted and sung by SHE) "Persian Cat"), the unknowing people in the room can keep up with the pace, humorous and natural, and sure enough to play and have fun everywhere.
There are many details in the film with special symbolism: the outside world is absurd and unruly, but the real Paris is dangling on the glass door, not the cold and regular building, but the beautiful Eiffel Tower. Jinghua Shuiyue was originally a true manifestation of the illusion, but here it becomes the reality of the illusion mapping. The true and the false are generally indistinguishable like playing time; the separated crowd is originally unrelated, but the director twice regarded it. Perfect mosaic, once when two households are watching TV on the wall and sitting opposite each other, the audience in the middle can only see one family is listening to the other family's conversation because a wall obstructs the line of sight (the TV is mounted on the wall). Surprised and sighed sometimes. The other time was when the American tourists were about to leave, the shadow of the tourists in the car was reflected on the glass that the window cleaner was wiping. When the workers turned the mirror, the tourists were surprised when they saw the novelty, which constituted the worker turning the car. The window, the joy of tourists turning over like a roller coaster, this kind of comedic effect that makes people laugh and laugh is too amazing.
Later, the transparent gate in the nightclub also played this role. When everyone witnessed its flashiness, the staff had to maintain the face project and put the “emperor’s new clothes” on the gate. This faked the prosperous scene. Absurd and too real, people can't help but immerse themselves in the carnival.
The chaos in the whole, the inferiority, the truth in the emptiness, the worry in the music, the subtle and profound connotation constitutes its classics, always having fun, and the grid is endless. "Playing Time"-the age of the year seems to be so indistinguishable
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