This is a film steeped in music. Julie's husband is a well-known composer, and they have a lovely daughter and are very happy. One day, the three of them were sitting in the car and Julie's husband was telling a joke, when a car accident happened. Happiness was shattered in an instant - Julie lost her husband and daughter. Sudden heavy losses often catch people by surprise. Julie begins to close herself off, but everything around her reminds her that life goes on. The melody from the unfinished music of her husband's lifetime was like a shadow wandering around Julie, repeatedly pulling her from the illusory peace back to the cruel reality.

The biggest feature of this film is that there is always a theme throughout the film. The whole film is 90 minutes long, and the theme is presented in 2--6 sections every 6 or 7 minutes on average. It not only plays a role in exaggerating emotions and promoting plot development, but also directly participates in the connection between scene transitions in the film. Although this theme will appear again every 6 or 7 minutes, it does not seem dull or boring because it is played with a variety of different instruments. For example, at 0:30:50 in the film, when Julie moved to her new home, her mood gradually calmed down. Here, the film uses string instruments to play this theme and mixes it with the noise made by electronic music. The theme of this scene is repeated three times with different noises, each time the noise is harsher, adding a bit of disorder to Julie's seemingly peaceful heart. This theme is also played on the flute several times in the film.

The theme first appeared at 0:09:21, when the husband and daughter were at the funeral. Julie was unable to attend the funeral due to her injuries and had to watch from her hospital bed on a screen. Here, music connects two places and times—the funeral scene and the hospital where Julie is staying. The bright tones of the bassoon and trombone are filled with endless mourning for the deceased. The two coffins, one large and one small, have separated Julie from her husband and daughter. Julie's trembling fingers repeatedly touching the screen make people desperately appreciate this separation between life and death.

Humans and animals are very similar in some ways. When injured, they would choose to be alone and slowly lick the wound. Julie also wants to get out of the circle of sadness through self-healing. A small wooden house in the woods is bathed in warm sunshine. Julie is sitting on a rocking chair in the house and seems to have fallen asleep. At this time, a faint blue light shrouded her face. When the music comes in, it's still the same theme. At bar ***7, the high-pressure sound of the brass and the rumbling drums suddenly break the calm harmony, and then the bright and sad trombone sounds. After that, the brass and trombone are used alternately, and the big The pipe is fast and powerful; the trombone is relatively soothing, long and sad. One is strong and the other is weak, forming a strong rhythm, like "dong dong dong" that constantly hits people's hearts. At the end of the 5th section, someone was looking for Julie, and the voice came in, "Julie?", and then the high-pitched brass music sounded again. It seemed that this simple greeting was like a thunder to Julie, and then the theme continued in a long way. The song ends with a long and bright sound.

This music plays a double role. First of all, it is the externalization of Julie's inner activities. It seems that calm has been restored, but the pain left by the disaster is just like this music as powerful as thunder, which unexpectedly awakens Julie from the illusory calm. This melody is in a major mode, strong, melancholy, and has a strong rhythm, giving people a percussive feeling. It always reminds: Don’t forget, be sad, be sad and live with dignity. In addition, the music itself also plays an editing role in the montage. The music takes the film from a quiet atmosphere to a sudden surge of tension, foreshadowing something to come. Sure enough, after the fifth section of the music ended, a black screen appeared in the video. Then the strong copper music sounded again. The video has been cut to another scene - a friend from the newspaper.

Their conversation:

Reporter: I know you don’t want to see me

Julie: Yes

Reporter: Can I come in?

Julie: No

Reporter: This has nothing to do with the interview

Julie: What is it about?

Reporter: I'm writing about your husband, but there's something I don't understand

Julie: What?

Reporter: Music to celebrate the European Union

Julie: No music

Reporter: Julie, you have changed, you were not like this before

Julie: Did you know I was in a car accident? I lost my husband and child in a car accident

(Julie turned and walked away)

Reporter: Julie, did you really write your husband’s music?

From this conversation, we can understand that after the car accident, Julie no longer wants to contact the outside world. Anything that can remind her of her memory may stimulate her sensitive nerves and cause her pain. Therefore, we can understand why this theme has such a strong rhythm and what it is striking - life gives us nowhere to escape.

The music in "Blue" is not only the externalization of Julie's inner emotions, but also the guide for Julie's actions. It's Julie's inner music. Whenever it rings, it leads Julie to the next action. Julie returns to the suburban villa where she and her husband once worked. Next to the piano are some of her husband's unfinished works. Julie looked at this piece of music score. At this time, the photographer used a defocused lens to capture the music score, which gave it a sense of blur. It seemed like Julie was watching through teary eyes. With the appearance of each musical note, the piano sounded, and Julie's hands unconsciously moved the piano cover. The sound of a huge piano cover interrupts the music and awakens Julie from her sadness. How to get rid of or just alleviate this pain, Julie needs to find an outlet for emotional catharsis - betraying what she once cherished, selling the house, moving to a remote neighborhood, Julie's search for her husband has not been completed, or to be precise, she and her husband have joined forces. Unfinished work. There's a really nice piece of music that's a recurring theme in the film, and Julie finds it, and the film sings the theme for us, and Julie takes it and throws it in the garbage truck. As the score is gradually rolled into the garbage truck, the chorus seems to be distorted and finally disappear. The music here guides everywhere and pushes the plot forward.

There are several scenes of Julie swimming in the film. She swam from one shore to the other and back again, as if she was swimming, but she could never reach the shore. When she was about to land, a high-pressure sound from a copper pipe came in, and Julie fell into the water again, as if she was forced into the water by this powerful music. Julie curled up and soaked in a pool of blue water, sadness seemed to soak into her bones. (0:45:39)

This sadness seems to be oppressing Julie like a heavy burden. Since self-treatment was so difficult, Julie thought of relying on her mother, her only relative. (0:55:52) The sun shines in the nursing home, the elderly seem very peaceful, and cheerful music plays. It sets off Julie's heavy heart. Julie comes here to visit her mother. The mother was already demented, unable to recognize Julie, and remained indifferent when she heard Julie's tragic news. This is their conversation:

Julie: I don’t want anything, no property, no friends, no love, it’s all a lie

Mother: Are you rich? Child

Julie: I have everything I need

Mother: This is very important, people cannot refuse everything

Even if a person doesn’t remember anything , but she also knows one thing: possession, so that she can hold as many things as possible in her hands.

The first thing Julie did when she came back from her mother was to borrow a cat to kill the baby mice in the house. Julie seemed to be trapped in a sea of ??sadness, unable to extricate herself. But things took a sudden turn. The husband had a lover during his lifetime. (1:14) Julie learned about this from Oliver. Oliver asked "What do you want to do?" Then the screen went black, and the strong theme of the brass music entered. Julie smiled and said "Go meet her". The director's way of handling the characters' emotions here is very clever. Not with words nor through the exaggerated acting of the actors. Instead, a black screen is given to give the audience room for imagination. And use music to show Julie's shock and complicated emotions after hearing the news.

At this moment, Julie seemed to have fallen into an abyss like a black screen, and she suddenly lost her direction. One party is still struggling to cling to this deep love; the other party has long looked down upon her. Her grief suddenly lost its credentials.

Perhaps the so-called sublime pain is originally imagined by us. life goes on. Her husband is dead, and Oliver loves Julie deeply. All you have to do now is accept life. Julie left the country villa to her husband's lover and his posthumous son. Julie visited her mother again, through the glass, and said goodbye.

Julie finally accepted her fate. The film ends with Julie and Oliver seemingly curled up in the womb like babies. Enter the rumbling drums and furious brass. The gorgeous, silky soprano is high and bright. The camera then switched to a series of scenes: the teenager who witnessed the car accident, the demented mother, the nurse, the prostitute, the baby in the B-ultrasound, the mother's serene smile, and Julie's eyes as moist as a baby. Life is like an unfolding picture. The music gradually slows down, turning from bright to rich, and finally the camera freezes on Julie's meditating face.