Jacques Tati's films are very personal, and the lines and dialogues are uncommon. This is a lot, but the body language is very expressive, which may have a lot to do with him being a pantomime actor. In the film, he is very good at using the visual effects of fixed long shots, combined with cheerful music, it can often present a joyful atmosphere. These characteristics of him are fully displayed in this film.
This is not a fast food movie, and almost every frame is worth revisiting. Some movies are only suitable for watching once, and the second time is boring. And some movies are not enough to watch once, and the character movements, visual effects, and sounds are all worth playing over and over again. Playtime clearly falls into the latter category.
The story itself is very lifelike, and the plot is relatively weak. The series of events surrounding Mr. Hu Luo's trip to the city to find someone is full of interest. Take the scene as a stage and perform a burlesque. In fact, there are a lot of laughing points, but it is not so easy to find, and different people laugh in different places. The viewer is asked to actively seek out the jokes, not passively instilled in them. It's not cool that everyone is laughing for the same place hahaha. In fact, there are many popular short videos that make me laugh at first, but after watching for a long time, I will feel uncomfortable and forced to be funny. Sometimes the videos will make their own hahaha laughter. Therefore, you need to watch this movie carefully, and every time you watch it, you may find a few new interesting points.
In terms of shooting skills, there are a lot of fixed long shots, and occasionally some moving shots, which are very caring for people's sight. Of course, there are protagonists in the movie, but from the same space, the supporting characters are also working very hard to express themselves, with a sense of protagonist. Even if the viewer pays attention to the people in any space, they will find many interesting details. For example, I found that the person at the farthest was motionless, but when I looked closely, it was a board. For example, at the beginning of the story, there is a couple, cleaners, police officers, nurses, etc., and people in the distance. It seems that everyone is the protagonist, and it seems that everyone is not. The fun is to see for yourself. Everyone can observe their own.
The soundtrack of the film is post-matched, and the sound is also very important, and the sound gives the item its personality. This is very common, especially when Hulot is sitting in that space, the sound of sofa clothes and so on is very obvious.
In this film, the modernist glass house is a very important element. That era happened to be the era of the most active glass skyscrapers, which is also evident in "My Uncle". The meaning of Bauhaus is very broad. It is a design school established by the then famous architect Gropius in Weimar Republic of Germany after the First World War. Later, it is often described as the avant-garde democratic design style. There are also shadows of postmodernism in the movie. The squirt fish in my uncle's villa is a postmodern style.
Considering the time when the film was produced, it happened to be the time when modernist architecture swept the world. Undoubtedly, the modernist architecture is an important factor in the film, which plays the role of "place". The large glass curtain wall, which is one of the obvious features of modernist architecture, is obviously conspicuous. Modern architectural glass not only creates spatial confusion, for example, Mr. Hulot is lost in this building, adding a lot of "jokes", but also showing the beauty of reflection.
Because the modern building is made of transparent glass, the indoor-outdoor feeling is not obvious, which will cause confusion in the sense of space. Through sound, different spatial feelings are created. For example, the outside is the roar of the car, and the indoor is the sound of the machine, like the sound of the refrigerator compressor running.
Reflection is an important feature of glass buildings, and the film makes good use of this feature. Because of the mirror reflection of the glass, the position of the person was wrongly judged, and the sense of position of the space felt overwhelmed, and even hit the glass wall, which I also hit.
Let me talk about a few small details, which I personally like very much:
The glass building gives a grim feeling. But a small flower stand was set up in the icy modern building, and I felt a little warm and moved.
Mr. Hulot met a friend and came to his home, a modern and transparent home from which the private life of his family could be admired from the street. People live under transparency, work life is the same. Life is supposed to be private, but it is visible. Obviously they are watching TV with each other, but they seem to observe each other's life. Modernization is a bit confusing. Hulot left a friend's house and couldn't find the button. I also run into things like this sometimes and don't fit in with modern stuff. The sense of incongruity will cause this kind of funny. Two people in the same space are talking on the phone, much like the behavior of people nowadays. They are very close to each other and prefer to use the Internet to communicate.
The trivial people and behaviors in the Crown restaurant make people laugh. For example, if the door is broken, the glass door is transparent anyway, and the guard still pretends to open and close the door while holding the door handle. Many people have a crown stamp on their backs. Hulot dances with the heroine Barbara, who are the protagonists throughout. The aircraft model that has been softened by heat, the temperature returns to normal and the aircraft is fine. The ceiling has collapsed, and everyone is still happy. Someone wants to buy the "painting" formed by the collapse of the ceiling. That is true optimism. A tool man, standing outside the door when his pants were torn, began to change people's torn clothes and shoes, as if it was a portrayal of this restaurant, broken and broken. Everyone who plays the piano, sings, dances, gets drunk, enjoys themselves, and has a good playtime.
In the early morning, everything starts over again.
In the end, Hulot gave Barbara a silk scarf, and the happy music recalled that the motorcade circled around the flower bed, like a merry-go-round in an amusement park. This scene is too classic, play time.
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