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35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille

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The Plastic Factory and Its Characters

The interiors of the sort of modern locations and factories are quite amazing. There's stuff that's completely nothing to do with architectural interpretation, which is that he populates all the scenes have got incidental characters who are on a sliding scale of how much they have an impact. They're always partly a stereotype with some strange physical characteristics or a tick. So in this one, there is a secretary in a pencil skirt who clops along making a sort of noise like a horse going click click click clicking click click click click Click! The other- it's a cold rivetive factory. Whatever that means.

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