Bell orchid

Alysha 2022-03-26 09:01:10

This movie is very much like a fable.

Due to time constraints, I read it in two parts. It is pessimistic and disappointed in life when people see the chaos in restaurants. So I feel that this movie is full of helplessness and ridicule. But after reading the end, I saw the huge Ferris wheel spinning around, and the exclamations of the people sitting in it came one after another, and I couldn't help but cheer.

To say that life is a game would be too disrespectful; but to take life too seriously, it is impossible to ponder the various appearances of life. I think Jacques Tati is a born optimist, although he made so many pessimistic and accurate predictions, in the end he still left a lily of the valley flower, which allows us to appreciate the relationship between people and people, people and cities the mystery.

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  • Ransom 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    Three and a half. This concludes the Hulot trilogy. The set is expensive, the music is attentive, and the lines are very few. As for the comedy and satire, it is no worse than the previous two.

  • Sid 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Anti-discipline. The transparent space composed of inorganic materials is originally a disciplined field, but under the leadership of Mr. Yu Luo, the authoritarian point of view of the camera and the audience's sight are diluted by the crowd and architectural space: we are constantly breaking into new places, new Things keep popping up in front of you, and there is no time for him to care. As a result, people, architectural space, and environmental sounds form a configuration that communicates with each other and operates together on a plane of intensity. At the same time, the sense of humor formed by those unconscious limbs colliding with "things" turns into a line of escape: breaking the rigid rules and re-freeing the body's functions. And those muttering French-speaking masses, the almost silent Mr. Hulot, are constantly challenging Anglocentrism: they stutter speech, they stutter language, so that a truly "cosmopolitan" language can come into being.

Playtime quotes

  • Barbara, Young Tourist: How do you say "drugstore" in French?

    Monsieur Hulot: Drugstore.

  • Monsieur Hulot: [in English, to Barbara] I'll be back.

    Old Woman 1: [in French] What's that mean?

    Old Woman 2: [in French] I've no idea. Can't they use French?