Re: What was the last movie you watched?
The Apartment (1960)
I KNOW I've seen bits of this movie before. I dunno if my sister had it on one time or what, but it was fantastic to see the whole thing.
It had a very slow, almost stuffy atmosphere, which worked well with the stifling situation C.C. Baxter (played to perfection by the awesometastic Jack Lemmon) found himself in. I absolutely loved the visual of endless rows of people in an office building stretching behind Lemmon in one scene, and a similarly endless row of benches in the park when he is forced to stay out of his apartment.
The only people who really mattered to Baxter in this vast, impersonal world were the bosses he had to please to achieve early promotion, and the girl who worked the elevators; thus, when these factions got mixed up, he had to choose between the two. Sprinkled in, of course, were the amusing interactions between Baxter and his rebuking doctor friend from the same building.
I also liked the little continuity bits, with objects such as the tissues, the razor, etc. The screenplay felt reserved yet carefully and cleverly crafted.
Billy Wilder was kind of an effing genius.
