Le Corbusier declares the aesthetic of functional objective
over ‘style’. He claims that human eyes are mean to appreciate simplicity of
basic form. Style of different periods was all plastic beauty. He claims that every
human has the same necessity, but what about emotional desire? His revolution
for ‘perfection’ is quite confusing. How can there be revolution when human
does not have a desire to change or to be different?
Le Corbusier praise how automobile is suitable to be a paragon
of architecture. Because automobile is standardized form when it is made. It is
mass-produced, yet still be able to be refined.
PlayTime reflects the ideal Le Corbu’s city, where
everything is mass production, and so human is. In the movie PlayTime the
director, Jacque Tati, excessively conveyed how the ideal innovated modernist
world could be.
The city from the movie is surprisingly Paris, a whole new
picture of Paris. Where there are no more prominent attractions that would
identify Paris in the way we view Paris as. The city is filled with rows of
same very modern looking buildings; buildings with glass walls and steel
structure with same height and same facade. These buildings have the iconic
principle of modernist; revealing inside and outside, unclear threshold (clear
glass walls), only functional elements are used (no ornaments), honest
materials are used, etc. The environment of the city is uniformed. Even other
cities that appear on posters have the same type of building.
No significant style that will distinguish different type of
people. They all wear the same thing or ‘international style’ to be said. Races
cannot be easily differentiate, even when they speak, the languages sound the
same (probably French, German, and English; the director might try to put it
this way to confused the audience). Their gestures and movements are patterned.
When they all look the same, people are confused. Someone would be mistaken to
another person. Calm and orderly atmosphere in the movie actually gives very
chaotic feeling for human emotions. Nobody could possibly feel at ease living
this kind of lifestyle.
The image of the movie is ideal modernistic city and
lifestyle; very uniformed, communistic. It is almost likely to me a Nazi style
of living, where people are controlled to have the same needs and satisfied by
same mass-produced products. Le Corbusier would have pictured this kind of city
when he came up with Radiant City. Even though, the movie is a bit too extreme
in a way that the city could actually be built.
Korapin A.
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