L5 PLAYTIME

  The Playtime film is a comedy by Jacques Tati and realised in 1967. And I want to write a review about design aspects in some episodes. After watching the film, I want to pay special attention to design and architecture.   The action takes place in France, we see it not as romantic and warm as everyone is used to.   The city is modern, has cold, metallic tones.   The rise of modernity.   I want to focus on the episode in the office.   There is a lot of concrete, glass, air, metal and plastic in this architecture.   Space takes on a new meaning, as even in offices there is a place for beauty.   It would seem that ordinary everyday things can look like a real exhibition, if everything is arranged correctly and air is added.   Also, the office space, which involves open space, is equipped with partitions.   This allows each employee to have a personal space, but at the same time, the hustle and bustle of the work perfectly supports the mo...

"Playtime" is a comedy movie, but through jokes and silly situations, it shows the viewer how people who are not used to new norms are confused and lost in modern realities. The film itself is about how a man comes to get a job in a business center and gets lost among the monotony of modern lifestyle and society in it. The "novelty" of modern cities is shown to the viewer through monochrome objects, plate glass, and steel, endless corridors, repeatable workstations, elevators, air conditioners. These details depersonalise the space so much that Hulot feels lost among the mechanical and not natural life inside the business center. Also, in contrast to the behaviour of the main character and the rest of the characters in the film, the viewer can pay attention to how absurd things familiar to us can look. The director ridicules the behaviour of the masses chasing fashionable places from postcards or opinion-inspired things that they will then be able to brag about to o...