The center of the city that kept old buildings and traditional lifestyles, marked by intense relations between the person, not specialized use of urban space (street-market-gaming space, meeting space) compared to a typical set of individual housing speculation alone, with withdrawals that separates it from the street and neighbors to avoid encounters.
class A house low to medium low, the result of successive adaptations of a previous building downtown, resulting in a space rather labyrinthine, with overlapping and overlapping that causes permanent meetings with the neighborhood, past a house functionalist, whose main characteristic is to have strict zoning (garden different terraces for different uses: lunch, coffee or have guests) and also has a high level of automation, especially in the kitchen and that the only possibility of establishing some kind of social or visual relationship with neighbors is to enter ritual at the house (the ritual of lighting the pool conspicuous) or surreptitiously looking over the wall dividing the house next door ..
The city center is seen as a safe space for children who have taken over the streets and run around and use space creatively, while the Arpel family neighborhood is perceived as gray and uncertain, for the enclosure and the scene where the house is anthropomorphizes acquiring the image of a face to watch.
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THE HOUSE AND THE MACHINES ARE MANUFACTURED
plastics factory Mr. Arpel has a high level of automation course like home. Bed and factory have a production-based organization ( the technological part of the house is the kitchen). The house is designed as a factory, composed of interrelated elements that must function properly if the tasks set are met. But in the factory and at home, when an element fails, there is chaos. At the factory, when Monsieur Hulot "Moneo" the machine and start producing sausages instead of tubes. And in the house when Hulot click the source pipe and meaningless space "to eat in the garden there is also chaos.
ULTRATECNOLOGÍA CRITICAL TO THE DESIGN AND banality
The scene where Hulot looking glass in the kitchen is a critique of consumerism, technology, the snobbish attitude of have the latest technology, which borders on the absurd.
also the way in which Hulot use the "soft" room to rest is a joke estilizante design, the formalist tendency imposed "fashion" and "styles" and that only represents an effort to sell and not a product designed for the welfare human.
ROLES, personality, values \u200b\u200b
Arpel's family is an archetype of male family, consumerism and ostentatious, centered economic objectives and maintaining a status determined by their level of consumption . He is the typical supplier husband keeps under his all-embracing Power to the family. Is a staunch advocate of the positive values \u200b\u200bof capitalism. He seems like a bad influence Hulot relationship with your child. Hulot tries to help by getting a job in the factory.
She is the typical domestic slave, with the role of maintaining and cleaning the house, which meets the hype. It is very ostentatious home "modern" to their friends. The source is an article of ostentation, which only begins to run when someone visits your home.
The wedding anniversary is giving away "properties" property, no personal use which shows their values, focused more on the property.
Arpel and his wife agree to make a lunch in the garden and invite the neighbors to know you Hulot, in the perspective that could be a couple. Is the defense of family values \u200b\u200bunder the consumer model. Hulot
instead shows human values, see the reality with the innocence of a child, so it has a great relationship with his nephew, alternating with all its neighbors, is concerned simplest things like picking your clothes dry, remove the shirt ironed by his neighbor, or move the sash to glare then the canary sing. It is the figure opposite the successful Lord Arpel
SYMBOLS
The neighborhood in the center and the house of M Hulot also symbolize the "natural" earthy colors, natural materials: stone, brick, vegetation, canaries, dogs, natural forms, while the house Arpel stands for "artificial" gray, metal, glass, plastic, until the garden appears artificial (! garden square linear forms).
The house and takes the appearance of a face to watch. Who watches? Let there be no invaders or thieves. Expressed feelings of insecurity and at the same time reveals the character of the house as the space saved possessions. The fortified house. Against this, Hulot is the key to the door of his home "hidden" on small roof above the door, in view of the world. Reveals a high degree of confidence in the neighborhood and of course the peace and security that Jane Jacobs speaks: "That peace must be ensured mainly a dense and almost unconscious, network of voluntary controls and reflexes and good provision recorded in the minds of people and constantly fed by them. " is the security of the old neighborhoods.
Tati is pessimistic about the future of the city. Towards the end of the movie is a scene where a house is the center that is being overturned. It symbolizes the gradual disappearance of the center and ways of living that houses and speculative extension of the city, functionalist and consumer lifestyle, individualistic.
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