I saw this movie many years ago and I've forgotten a lot of it, so this comment is likely to contain some inaccuracies, but here is goes: From the beginning to the end, it is a short and absurd story about - just like the title says - two men and a wardrobe.
Two unknown men arrive at a beach carrying with them a worn and soaked wardrobe. They travel to town but meet problems wherever they go. There's no accommodation for them, not at mention the wardrobe. Nobody wants them there and the wardrobe, which they carry with them wherever they go just causes to annoy and bother the people they meet. The wardrobe, not very mobile furniture in any way, gets more and more damaged as the story unfolds. It is eventually destroyed (or perhaps not - I can't remember) and the men return to the beach traveling back to wherever they came from.
After I saw it I didn't understand anything of it. Was it just a simple and absurd story without any message at all? Hardly. I'm not going to interpret it in any profound way, but If I said that Roman Polanski (the director of the movie) is a Jew with a lot of horrible memories from Europe during the second world war and that people always carries baggage with them, either metaphorically or literally, then this should give a little hint at the symbolical messages within the movie.
Two unknown men arrive at a beach carrying with them a worn and soaked wardrobe. They travel to town but meet problems wherever they go. There's no accommodation for them, not at mention the wardrobe. Nobody wants them there and the wardrobe, which they carry with them wherever they go just causes to annoy and bother the people they meet. The wardrobe, not very mobile furniture in any way, gets more and more damaged as the story unfolds. It is eventually destroyed (or perhaps not - I can't remember) and the men return to the beach traveling back to wherever they came from.
After I saw it I didn't understand anything of it. Was it just a simple and absurd story without any message at all? Hardly. I'm not going to interpret it in any profound way, but If I said that Roman Polanski (the director of the movie) is a Jew with a lot of horrible memories from Europe during the second world war and that people always carries baggage with them, either metaphorically or literally, then this should give a little hint at the symbolical messages within the movie.