Blue is a 1993 French film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is part of a trilogy of films, called Trois Couleurs. The film follows the story of a woman, named Julie, who loses everything in a tragic accident. She is the sole survivor of her quaint family -- daughter Anna and husband Patrice de Courcy, famed composer, are killed in the accident. Her immediate reaction is to attempt to join them by trying to commit suicide in the very hospital in which she is recovering. When she finds herself unable to follow through, she "kills" herself in a different way. Completely withdrawing from her former life and severing all her ties, she attempts to cut off ties to society at large, living completely alone in Paris. She destroys her husband's final unfinished composition in a symbolic act, hoping to destroy her past life and keep herself completely isolated from the world.
She befriends a prostitute named Lucille who is living nearby. Despite Julie's attempts to remain isolated, however, she is drawn back into her old world: another composer, Olivier, announces he will attempt to finish Julie's husband's work, as it is important and symbolic to the post-Cold War peace in Europe. Olivier, a family friend prior to the crash, is in love with Juliette and suspects the husband's composition is actually Julie's work. He helps to force Julie to realize her quest for pure isolation and disposal of the past is impossible. A revelation about her husband Patrice also inspired this process; Julie learns her husband was in the midst of an affair at the time of his death. When she finds the object of his affair, she learns that the woman is pregnant with her husband's child. She gives the woman her husband's house. By the end of the film, Julie has learned that escaping pain by numbing it out of oneself is impossible, and she has re-immersed herself into her former world, crying for the first time as she listens to the final composition of her husband.
She befriends a prostitute named Lucille who is living nearby. Despite Julie's attempts to remain isolated, however, she is drawn back into her old world: another composer, Olivier, announces he will attempt to finish Julie's husband's work, as it is important and symbolic to the post-Cold War peace in Europe. Olivier, a family friend prior to the crash, is in love with Juliette and suspects the husband's composition is actually Julie's work. He helps to force Julie to realize her quest for pure isolation and disposal of the past is impossible. A revelation about her husband Patrice also inspired this process; Julie learns her husband was in the midst of an affair at the time of his death. When she finds the object of his affair, she learns that the woman is pregnant with her husband's child. She gives the woman her husband's house. By the end of the film, Julie has learned that escaping pain by numbing it out of oneself is impossible, and she has re-immersed herself into her former world, crying for the first time as she listens to the final composition of her husband.
Blue was an uninteresting movie, that lacked any kind of subtlety. Any time Julie had any type of significant thought the music would rise drastically while the video faded out. As if the audience would not understand when something important dawned on Julie's mind. This experimental editing only detracted from the movie, which was paced to slowly to keep interest in. Julies character did suffer a travesty early on in the film, but it doesn't explain her completely robotic emotions for most of the movie. Especially since she does get emotional at the smallest remembrance of her daughter and husband, such as when she finds her daughters blue light. Yet even when she is alone she refuses to show any remembrance of her husband or daughter. She abandons her old home at the drop of the hat.
Grief- the film explores it,grief holds us in its clasp, it can long,numbing and unrelenting.
ReplyDeleteI lost a brother-( a disappearance)- for over a decade if attempted to speak his name I would only stammer.
Not your perfect- but it adds to the dialogue