PLAY TIME

"Play Time" was directed by French director, Jacques Tati, who himself played as a Monsieur Hulot in the movie. Tati has built an enormous set specially for the film with complex visual sound and low level of dialoge as a background noise. Here are some ideas after i watched this movie. 

As i started watching "Play time", confusion came to my mind........

The movie started with the scene at the airport where a group of american tourist arrived to Paris. The officer inside the airport acting and dressing neatly and moved orderly. There is less dialogue but more of the natural voice from the scene in the movie which let viewer a chance to guess and perceive what the director trying to show. As I started to observed the background and architecture in the movie, I found that there is a glass box building appear in the movie a lot. I can see from the interior of the building like airport, office, and the scene where there was a product sale event or something. The interior looks light with white color and glass facade, also appear to be geometry shape for the furniture. When the American tourist come to the outside of buildings, there happened to be a lot of high rise buildings around the area which all of them again, looks like a glass geometry box shape. The tone of the movie looks like it was shooting in black and white film, but it was not because i still see some color in the movie. I think it reveal the idea of modern where the object or architecture come up with natural and pure color. 

Tati has built his enormous set of background, furniture, and architecture especially for his film. The inspiration would be from modernism because when look back to the time when this movie produced, it's like the time when modernism has been effective to the world. Mies van der rohe is one of the famous architect known in modernim period. He is Mr. "Less is more", that known for simplicity, and geometry shape. Just like in the movie, architecture that appear in the film happened to be like Mr. Less is more's. Anyway, i think "Play Time" is a good and also weird movie which confused me a lot with the voice, the character, but not the architecture. It tells the story itself that it is a lovely modernism.