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Oct. 19th, 2021 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42I checked out the movie Playtime from the library, directed by Jacques Tati. Tati has been on my mind lately ever since I found out via The Sparks Brothers that Sparks were once set to act in a film that he had written, and even wrote a song for it. Learning that absolutely blew my mind more than anything else I saw in the documentary. Just like Sparks, Jacques Tati's films are one thing my dad introduced me to that I now love. Mon Oncle and M. Hulot's Holiday are my favorites, and both contains scenes that stick out in my memory as some of the hardest laughs I ever got out of watching a film. And it KILLS me knowing that Sparks were almost involved because I can picture so clearly how the story would have gone and what it would look like and what it would sound like... Basically I can just never think about Confusion or I'll lose my mind.
Anyway, that being said, I have Playtime now and I'm very interested in watching it again. It's very experimental, with an emphasis on the mundane, and when I first watched it my dad told me to "pay close attention," so I combed every scene looking for something exciting and it wasn't until after the movie ended that I realized I'd been watching it wrong. I wasn't supposed to pay attention because there were exciting things hidden in the background- I was supposed to pay attention because the film would put me to sleep otherwise. A professor at my college had a big poster of Playtime on his office door, which kept it in my attention for a few years, and now that I'm thinking about Tati again I'm sort of glad that Playtime is the only film of his that my library has. I really want to give it a second chance. I once saw a YouTube comment about it that stuck with me forever- "Cool, a people-watching movie." And that seems to me to be the proper approach to watching it.
Anyway, that being said, I have Playtime now and I'm very interested in watching it again. It's very experimental, with an emphasis on the mundane, and when I first watched it my dad told me to "pay close attention," so I combed every scene looking for something exciting and it wasn't until after the movie ended that I realized I'd been watching it wrong. I wasn't supposed to pay attention because there were exciting things hidden in the background- I was supposed to pay attention because the film would put me to sleep otherwise. A professor at my college had a big poster of Playtime on his office door, which kept it in my attention for a few years, and now that I'm thinking about Tati again I'm sort of glad that Playtime is the only film of his that my library has. I really want to give it a second chance. I once saw a YouTube comment about it that stuck with me forever- "Cool, a people-watching movie." And that seems to me to be the proper approach to watching it.
