A wonderful review of the movie "Blue, White and Red Trilogy: Blue"
The movie is the masterpiece of director Krzysztof Kieslowski. It tells the story of The tragic life of the heroine Julie after she suffered a car accident. This movie is characterized by a heavy and depressing plot, slow progress, and minimal but exciting dialogue. From the beginning to the end, the movie is shrouded in a heavy layer of sadness, making it impossible for depressed people to relax or even vent. Director Krzysztof Kieslowski shows his thoughts and explorations about human nature through movies, which is thought-provoking.
Blue is reminiscent of the sky or the ocean. It gives people a sense of tranquility, purity, and at the same time reason and melancholy. The movie "Blue" is a French film directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, a Polish man. This film is the first in the director's trilogy, the other two being " "White" and "Red". Blue, white and red are the colors of the French flag, and blue represents freedom. There are a lot of blue backgrounds and objects in the film. What impressed me most were the blue swimming pool and the blue wind chimes.
The movie tells the story of the heroine Julie who was injured in a car accident. When she woke up, she learned that her husband and 5-year-old daughter were killed in the car accident at the same time. Julie was so distraught that she tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the hospital. After being discharged from the hospital, Julie decided to bid farewell to her past life, entrusting a lawyer to sell her house, make a will, move, cut off contact with relatives and friends, and even threw away the precious composition manuscripts of her composer husband. Julie left her past privileged life and moved into an ordinary apartment and began a life of isolation. But reality broke into Julie's life: the young man who was beaten violently late at night escaped into Julie's room, but locked Julie out of the house; the neighbor asked Julie to sign a consent form in order to drive away the prostitute downstairs; the flute player on the street Hands, sleeping on the street; people found in car accidents return necklaces, etc. After the car accident, Julie's life seemed to be filled with despair. The memories of the past could not be shaken off, causing Julie to suffer and struggle. In such a life, a chance changed this life of despair and death. She saw on TV that her husband's assistant, who was also his boyfriend, Oliver, disclosed her husband's manuscript. The assistant was going to complete this work called "European Union Concerto". At the same time, some photos were also released on TV, in which there was a woman who looked very close to her husband. Julie suspected that she was her husband's lover. After watching the TV, Julie did two things: the first thing was that she found an assistant. She did not agree with the assistant to complete her husband's works, but was rejected by the assistant, who believed that they belonged to the public; the second thing, Julie found Julie found the woman in the photo, who was a lawyer, and Julie saw that she was pregnant.
In the movie, when Julie and the female lawyer met for the first time, the conversation was very exciting. Julie told the female lawyer that she had just found out about her husband's mistress. The female lawyer smiled bitterly and said: "It's so embarrassing. You will hate him now and you will hate me." Julie replied: "I don't know." ?Then, the female lawyer asked her: ?Do you want to know the time and place for dating with your husband? How many times a month? Julie replied: ?No need. The female lawyer asked again: "Do you want to know whether he loves me or not?" Julie replied: "Yes, I just want to know this." ?After speaking, she saw the necklace around the female lawyer's neck. Julie continued: ?But why ask? I know he loves you. ?The female lawyer asked: ?Will you hate me now? Julie did not answer.
After Julie left, she stopped selling the house and gave the house to the female lawyer and her unborn son. Later, Julie began to complete her husband's work with her assistant ***, and her relationship with her assistant also developed new development. At the end of the movie, there is that endless blue.
Throughout the whole movie, there is very little dialogue. The first sentence is only about 5 minutes into the movie, and the plot is soothing and depressing. Because there is little dialogue, a large number of shots rely on the heroine's subtle facial expressions. The heroine Juliette Binoche is not the most beautiful, but her acting skills are very good and her temperament is also very good, which makes people feel beautiful and full of wisdom. There is a scene in the movie when Julie packs up her belongings after a car accident, pulls off a bunch of blue wind chimes from the blue room, and then sits on the stairs holding the blue wind chimes in her hands, and the reflection is reflected on her face. The blue light above, combined with Julie's numb expression of sadness, is so sad that it makes people feel powerless.
I think the perfect expression of Julie is a key to the success of this movie, and it also won Juliette Binoche, the actor who plays Julie, two backseat awards at Venice and France's César Awards.
The director of "Blue" is the great Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. He is known as the most original, talented and most creative director in contemporary Europe. The unscrupulous "film master" is called "Deep Purple Narrative Thinker" by the philosopher Liu Xiaofeng. Kieslowski focuses on and explores issues in the individual spiritual world in this film. The director himself seems to have a philosophical temperament, which makes this film somewhat philosophical.
In a Western proverb, it is said: When I walk in the world, memory is the only luggage. ?Memory is the most important thing for everyone, but in the movie, the memory of the past becomes what the heroine Julie wants to get rid of most. Memory is the source of Julie's sadness. She didn't go to the cemetery, refused to look at the photos, or even cried. Julie wants to be free from the bondage of love, to be free from the past. One of the scenes is: Julie went to visit her mother. Her mother had forgotten who she was and regarded her as her sister. Her mother was just watching TV programs. There was a trembling old man bungee jumping on the TV screen. . Such a picture is very impressive. A sport like bungee jumping should be so exciting and uplifting, even romantic, and full of vitality. But when the old man moved tremblingly and finally fell slowly, it only made people fall with him, and made his heart feel heavy and depressed. .
In the movie, there was another scene that made me more depressed and even uncomfortable. When Julie scratched her fist along the wall, her fist was covered with blood. It reminds me of when I was a child, naughty children deliberately scratched the rough walls with sharp objects. The sharp sound made my heart tremble and tighten.
A key element in this film is the music. Music can reveal hidden emotions in real life in our hearts, thus enriching the content of musical experience. The music interspersed throughout the film is more like Julie's painful memories. When the music started playing, it was when Julie was in great pain. Uncontrollable sadness, no outlet, no cure. Music plays a healing role here. In the movie, the unfinished work left behind by her husband is also like a link, connecting the happiness of the past and the pain of reality, connecting Julie and her husband, and connecting Julie and her boyfriend.
In the movie, whenever Julie is in conflict, struggle and pain, she will jump into the blue swimming pool. Once, Julie found a nest of newborn mice in the kitchen. She felt sick and frightened. After struggling for a few days, she borrowed a cat from a neighbor. She just locked the cat in the house and ran away to the swimming pool and jumped into the pool. Julie also felt sorry for the mice in her heart. After the car accident, there was no scene of Julie crying. At the end of the movie, Julie began to work with her boyfriend to complete her husband's remaining works, and she also began to accept her boyfriend's love. Finally, at the end of the movie, Julie shed calm tears.
Romain Rolland said: "The numerous wounds are the best thing that life has given you." You can always heal the wounds slowly and discover the meaning of life while you are alive. Those traumas and sad pasts can always make the heart stronger. In the movie, the opportunity for Julie's transformation was because of the prostitute in the apartment. Julie did not sign the consent form to drive away the prostitute, so the prostitute felt that she started dating Julie. It also seems to imply that in real life, those turns and transformations come from the strange and ignored people around us.
"Blue" also depicts family, love and friendship. Julie gets into a car accident and plans to sell everything and use the money to support her mother and maid. There are also two scenes in the movie where Julie goes to visit her mother, although her mother does not recognize her at all. Regarding love and marriage, the lovemaking she had with her boyfriend on a rainy night was more like a ritual. After that, Julie completely said goodbye to her past life. Later, when Julie found out about her husband's mistress, she didn't know whether she hated her husband or his mistress. In the end, she chose to leave the house to her mistress and her children. Julie is "generous and trustworthy". The mistress relayed Julie's husband's description of her, which is also a description of Julie's character. It also seems to imply that the generous and wise Julie will inevitably slowly get out of the shadow of the past.
Blue also represents freedom in the movie.
The heroine Julie has lost her loved ones, and at the same time her responsibilities as a wife and mother have also disappeared. She seems to have gained a certain degree of freedom. She can choose to continue her good life and start a new and beautiful love. How should people survive when faced with such grief? Julie's confession in the movie is: "The only thing I have to do now is to do nothing." I don't want any legacy, any memories. No friends, no love. Those are all external things. ?Julie is just waiting to die alone. Julie chooses to stop living in a state of life. But as the film slowly unfolds, something new is woven into the fabric.
The movie also seems to convey the meaning that it is impossible for people to live without society. Even if you can choose to live alone for a while, you will slowly integrate into the right track in the end. There seems to be invisible threads connecting people, intertwined and inseparable. There is no so-called freedom for individuals. Only by constantly integrating into the lives of others and being needed and affirmed by others can individuals seem to find the meaning of life.
Wonderful review of the movie "Blue, White, Red Trilogy: Blue"? My interpretation of "Blue"
In a car accident, Julie lost her husband and five-year-old child. He almost died in the West. The first thing she did when she could get out of bed and move around was to smash the glass of the hospital pharmacy and plan to commit suicide by taking pills. After she was discharged from the hospital, she sold her house, made a will, took care of her funeral arrangements in advance, and prepared to live a secluded life in isolation from the outside world. On the eve of her departure, she invited her boyfriend who had been pursuing her for many years and took the initiative to have sex with him. It was a reward for him and it was also her last ceremony to bid farewell to everything in the past.
She was so decisively cut off from the past that she didn’t even want the manuscripts of her husband, a famous musician, when she left. In the past, she only brought a blue wind chime. For her, her family was destroyed and everything was meaningless. She had only one thought: waiting for death to come.
Although she wanted to be isolated from the world, real life always invaded unpreparedly: victims of late-night street violence fled into her house but locked her out; neighbors asked her to sign consent for eviction A prostitute came out of the building; and her husband's music sounded in her ears from time to time, and so on. She thought of her mother. My mother has been waiting for death for many years. I don’t know how she survived. She goes to visit. Her mother stayed in front of the TV all day and didn't even recognize her daughter, thinking she was her sister. The days of waiting to die are terrible and boring.
The life of waiting to die out of despair is so heavy.
Whenever she is in conflict, pain, or struggle, she jumps into the blue pool and swims. Here, water is a symbol of life, and blue represents freedom and tranquility of the soul. If life has no meaning, there can be no freedom of life and tranquility of soul.
Her boyfriend finally found her, but the love of others could not arouse her enthusiasm to return to life.
An accidental opportunity changed her attitude of waiting for death. She saw her boyfriend announce her husband's manuscript on a TV show. This manuscript, titled "European Union Concerto", was originally intended to be performed simultaneously by symphony orchestras in twelve EU countries when the EU was established. Her boyfriend announced that he would continue the work. From the TV, Julie also saw a photo of her husband before his death, next to a close girlfriend.
She disagreed with her boyfriend completing her husband's work, saying it was personal. But her boyfriend said it was public and insisted on completing it. She asked her who the woman in her husband's photo was. When she met her husband's lover, the female lawyer asked her: "Do you hate me?" She replied: "I don't know." ?When she found out that the female lawyer was nine months pregnant with her husband's child, she immediately stopped selling the house after returning home and gave it to her husband's girlfriend. Julie changed her attitude of waiting for death in despair and rekindled her enthusiasm for life. She saw that her husband's life had not disappeared because of death, and both spiritual and physical life continued. As a result, she became active and high-spirited. She not only actively helped her boyfriend complete her husband's legacy, but also fell into new love.
Director Chislovsky seems to want to tell us that isolated life is meaningless and painful. Only when life is included in the chain of other people's lives can it gain value and meaning, and only then can there be freedom. With this, he also answered the question of EU unity and even the unity of mankind.
The opportunity for Julie's transformation was that she accidentally saw her boyfriend on TV publishing her husband's posthumous works and photos, and this happened to be when she went to a pornographic establishment to help a prostitute on the same floor. of. The director seems to be implying that kindness is the foundation for her change. Just as her husband's girlfriend said when she accepted the house as a gift: "Your husband always praised you in front of me during his lifetime, saying that you were so kind that everyone could rely on you." ?
The thinking in "Blue" is profound, but the story structure that conveys this thinking is fragile. Because we inevitably have to ask: If she had not suffered this accident and her family had survived intact, would it have been possible for her to extend her passion for life and love for people beyond the family? Can she still be able to do so without being jealous of her husband? Lover? Faced with this question, "Blue"'s thoughts were suspended.
How to extend people’s kindness and love beyond the family has not been solved by Chinese Confucian culture for thousands of years, and "Blue" has not really solved it either. ;