Playtime - Jacques Tati - Window Cleaning

Maybe because it is not obvious like most comedy these days. It is quiet, gentle and needs you to pay attention to what is happening. It is a very different way of viewing film - it is poetry. Just slow right down and pay attention and you may get it. Tati was a genius. Truly.

Someone should upload the whole restaurant part

Playtime is one of my favorite films of all time.

PLEASE do help me, nice window slapstick, but WHAT is supposed to be funny about this movie?

On the surface, the humor is visual - sight gags involving humans or other objects. This film is about the absurdity of humans trying to live like robots in a straight world. It is not merely a comedy. It is a film you must see over and over again to catch everything. I'm telling you, yes, it is merely my opinion, but having seen 5,000 movies or so, I still say this is one of my favorites of all time. There is simply no other film like it.

Amazing, still, it broke Tati's financial back trying to educate people and spoonfeeding them his worldviews and expecting them to pay admission for it at that. Tough. Honestly, the ones who would have deserved the spanking were the bankers who financed Tativille in the first place. Just my opinion.

Directors like Michael Bay worry about how much money his film is going to make. Tati was a poet and an artist who was handed a movie camera. Financial success was not as important as his world view and he got my attention the first time I watched it. It's ok if you have a different feeling about it.

Money DOES matter. Not to care is irresponsible and someone will ALWAYS foot the bill. Idealism is a nice hobby, and as long as the idealists pay for it themselves, who cares. It was OK for VanGogh just to paint his days and booze and f*** his nights away, but he was only able to do so because of his good ole' brother Theo who kept his fancies going. That's the problem with idealists: they always come sponging off the down-to-earth guys who produce the cash. Never idealize & fritter away OPM.

Money matters when you have a big budget. There are a lot of people making films with small budgets and putting them directly on youtube. So idealism can succeed. Vincent would have made paintings with or without Theo. It was in his blood.

Nothing, absolutely nothing is funny about it! Maybe that´s what´s supposed to be funny :)