Paris je-taime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location-Paris, city of love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each-the audience must weave a narrative out of the twenty moments.An omnibus film concerning love,whether romantic,familial or existential. The twenty moments are fused by transitional interstial sequences and also via the introduction and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There is a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all.
However, the fundamental objective of this paper is to draw similarities from the different aspects…show more content… The city alienated him. The economical state of the man also bothered him given that he had all one needed and he was still single. Suddenly, a woman faints near his car. He gets out to help her. A man who claims to be a doctor comes forward to check her up while passer-bys stand by to watch and speculate. Only an entertainment of sorts. The city dwellers have conditioned themselves to carry on with their lives instead of waiting around. The notion of objective culture devised by George Simmel which interprets a way of life chosen by the people is applicable in this…show more content… A young medical student has a profund encounter with an immigrant who is dying after being stabbed by a delinquent. He did odd jobs to survive in a place like Paris. He worked as a janitor, played music on the streets to get that little extra cash he could use for future purposes. This incident can be related to the fact that the group of hooligans who didnot 'care' about hurting him-blase effect. Simmel observed the actions of the people and then came up with ideas as such which appropriately fit the scene.
Prostitution and strip clubs are one of the oldest businesses in the world. And Paris being the city of lights and love had some of the biggest clubs and houses for this form of entertainment. Feudalism is the mode of production here since the capacity of labour is with the owner. And it is not free to sell. Karl Marx formulated this idea based on the idea of production and how it is all dependent on the owner.
Max Weber's concepts on social instituions, a total systematic unit of inter-human life characterised by different actions of instituions were of help in this segment of the movie which dealt with a dispute between an engaged couple who fight over Oscar Wilde's theories and humor. Although in the end they patch up all thanks to to the spirit of Wilde who came to rescue the man from a marriage break
