"Art"

I feel that "Art" was a in depth portrayal of human nature done in a way that was insightful and entertaining at the same time. The whole time I was reading this I kept comparing it back to the playground scene in elementary school. Now, where I went to school we didn't have a playground so we held recess in a parking lot thus a lot of "he said, she said" and kid like arguments took place. I mean what else are kids to do when we can't even play with balls since they could roll into the road. In order to have fun at recess kids would sometimes bring in their "cool" toy to show everyone. It is the antics that always followed when a toy was brought in that I related to Serge showing Marc his new painting. What ensued was Marc made fun of Serge then ran and told Ivan about it. Ivan then ran to Serge and was nice about the painting. Then Serge told Marc what Ivan said and Marc told Serge what Ivan said. Then, both got mad a Ivan for saying different things. To me that seems like some playground antics to me. But, the genius behind it was that Yasmina Reza took a simple scenario you could watch any given day at your local playground and applied it to a group of adults. Adults who are supposed to be more mature and grown-up then Elementary students...I guess there's a little kid left in us all now isn't there?

Here's a link to a clip of two little kids fighting over toys...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxLm4afZXw

... Think about how the baby further from the camera has Elmo first (Serge buys a painting), so the Baby that appears closest to the camera feels the need to demean the others toy (Marc making fun of Serge for buying the painting). I know this is a weak link between the two, all the videos on YouTube were of course violent ones, but the link is still there for analysis.