In this class, we have watched a film called ‘Playtime’ by Jacques Tati, who played as M. Hulot in the film. Playtime projected the life of Modernism and the people. Tati use fewer dialogs in the film, to let the audience experience more on the sound of the background and surroundings.
The film begins in the airport scene, where there is the sound of people walking; creating rhythmic footsteps, which starts off soft and soon becomes louder and louder. The different sound of people walking can also classified different kinds of people; for instance, the fast walking pace of the businessman or the VIP surrounded with photographers.
Moreover, Playtime mentioned the perspective of those repetitions in modernism, where people are wearing same style of cloth; similar tone; grayish, similar skirt length, hairstyle and bag, and the building also look the same. Apart from the clothing, the pace of their walk, and the tempo in which their shoes or high heels have against the floor are also similar. This portrays the modern life where everything seems to be so systematic. For instance, the scenes in the depressing cubical office, where the cube work space are equally and systematically divided around the room. Everything looks too much the same to me, it may be good to have things in systematic way, but yet it can be too boring. People are losing their own identity and uniqueness by wanting to be the same as everyone.
The link between the film and Louis Kahn, is maybe the architecture that look all the same in the rectangular shape and form; the use of geometric shape, like Kahn’s architecture, where most of his buildings are start from the form of geometric shape.
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