Playtime review

"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 other similar marketing victims. This is especially evident in the scene where the characters find themselves in a cool restaurant that everyone is talking about, but in fact, the institution turns out to be unfinished, not even close to ready to receive guests, and not as good as they say about it in society.