Playtime

This journal entry is about the movie “Playtime” (1967) which is directed by Jacques Tati. The film was made in 1967, which is the modern era. In the film context implies a lot of idea of being modernist, which can be linked to the modern architecture. The age of Modern is the age of unity and equality because during the WWII when the Jewish weren’t treated the same as other people. So people got so much of bad memories about the unfair treated that many of the victims of the war got. The idea of equality is brought up to pay those bad memories of.

The film took place in Paris where everyone dresses the same with the simple colors and pattern where they lost their identity and other people get confuse and get everyone mixes up. It is the same as the city plan which French architect, Le Corbusier, once proposed to the city of Paris, the capital city of France where he want it have lots of same design of buildings.  Imagine, if you live in a big city where every block looks the same, will you get lost in the city? I will because every place lacks of its own identity. When each place has no identity, the context of places becomes worthless. In the film there is one part that shows the posters promoting many countries. In those posters, they all look the same accept the flag of each country.  So location doesn’t matter anymore because it is all the same. Everything in this film suggests the equality of everyone. Nothing is different. But, Is that really a great thing being unity? Is the uniform we wear everyday is a great thing?