Le Corbusier, another
great modernism architect of this era like Mies Van Der Rohe the father of
modern architecture. For him everything in his architecture must be simple and
clean just like the word “modern”. The architectures are simple, but by being
simple they still provide functions for living.
The film “Playtime”
directed by Jacques Tati, A comedian and director. In this film he tells a
story of a man traveling in Paris, which every thing looks the same, well
managed, put in order, colorless, plain and simple. A city full of plain metallic,
glass buildings with no decorations. Mainly mass produces architecture. People
are label by numbers and dressing all the same, which is very confusing. Everything
divided into blocks, which all look the same. It is so confusing
The movie is clearly
showing the world through Corbusier’s mind about modern architecture. The whole
city was well design and organized in a modern way. Everything is in the grid,
glass boxes and steel structure. I was
quite interested at the start of the movie I didn’t understand the movie
clearly, but by spending more time watching through the movie and looking
through the scenes we can start understand the story he wants us to see. The
color of the places were very dull so all the buildings look the same, the cars
in the airport parking lot even a picture of the hotel in the poster for a
vacation looks exactly the same as the office. The people inside the film dress
the same and looks the same, their cloths looks international, that’s why you
can see people getting confused all the time, they keep saying hello to
strangers, but they think they know that person.
In the film the director
uses sound effects to identify different places, person, actions or feelings,
but actually those sound effects are unreal.
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