Blue
"Blue," is a French movie directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski that is part of a trilogy. The other two movies are entitled Red and White. The three colors together represent the colors of the French flag. The movie begins with a car crash and a mother losing the ones she loved. Her husband, a musical composer, and her daughter. Julie's family was everything to her and she didn't know how to cope with the death of the most important people in her life. While recovering at a Hospital she feebly attempts to kill herself, but is interrupted by a nurse and realizes how foolish a decision it was. Just a short while after the tragedy she has to discuss what will happen to her belongings and husband's symphonic masterpiece that was never finished. She has her house emptied out except for one blue hanging ornament. Julie throws away the masterpiece attempting to erase the painful memories along with it. She finds herself constantly reminded of her husband through memories of his music.
Symphonies fade in a out as she daydreams attempting to live her life without any interruption. She wants to let out her emotions but is afraid to and doesn't. During one particular scene she leaves her house after sleeping with her husband's colleague and grinds her fingers against a stone wall. She didn't yell or cry, she grinned her knuckles against a wall until they bled, this demonstrated her frustration with her emotions. She eventually finds out that her husband had an affair and an illegitimate child with another woman. One would think that she would loose control. The complete opposite happens and she is no longer burdened with her husband because she learns that her husband loved his mistress. Julie feels less emotionally tied to her husband because she knows he wasn't completely emotionally tied to her. Julie buys her own apartment and becomes more emotionally stable as she begins to finish her husband's last piece of work. She works with her husband's colleague and is no longer as haunted by his music as she once was.
The major theme in this movie is coping with loss. The entire movie is about her trying to find out what do do about the loss of her family. Julie has a one night stand with her husbands coworker and that didn't seem to help very much. She bought her own appartnemt that was completely empty. The color blue that is emphacized throught the movie is exactly how she felt.
I enjoyed this movie, I never ended up wondering or wishing it was going to end. The emotions that Julie felt through the movie were magnified by the music and the shots chosen to exploit them. You could easily tell how he felt without her having to verbalize it or exaggerate. I enjoyed the movie because I realized I'm used to over produced Hollywood movies with special effect and other things that are there to just to get people to ooh and ah. Music and good lead acting made this movie very entertaining for me. I never felt bored or uninterested while watching the movie.
Symphonies fade in a out as she daydreams attempting to live her life without any interruption. She wants to let out her emotions but is afraid to and doesn't. During one particular scene she leaves her house after sleeping with her husband's colleague and grinds her fingers against a stone wall. She didn't yell or cry, she grinned her knuckles against a wall until they bled, this demonstrated her frustration with her emotions. She eventually finds out that her husband had an affair and an illegitimate child with another woman. One would think that she would loose control. The complete opposite happens and she is no longer burdened with her husband because she learns that her husband loved his mistress. Julie feels less emotionally tied to her husband because she knows he wasn't completely emotionally tied to her. Julie buys her own apartment and becomes more emotionally stable as she begins to finish her husband's last piece of work. She works with her husband's colleague and is no longer as haunted by his music as she once was. 
The major theme in this movie is coping with loss. The entire movie is about her trying to find out what do do about the loss of her family. Julie has a one night stand with her husbands coworker and that didn't seem to help very much. She bought her own appartnemt that was completely empty. The color blue that is emphacized throught the movie is exactly how she felt.
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