Can anyone tell me what in the world "yellow" has to do with anything? If it means cowardly, it's lost on me, and I imagine, most others.
shareI´m not sure but it can have some thing to do with the colors of the Swedish flag(yellow&blue.)
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Yes, thats correct!
The name of the movies, yellow and blue is a reference to the colurs of the Swedish flag.
Yes, the color refers to the Swedish flag's yellow and blue; the "Curious Yellow" was followed by "Curious Blue" the following year.
Vilgot Sjöman, the actors and and the crew had shot the film over a period of a year, pretty much improvising every scene as it came to them. After editing, the film was close to four hours, which the producers thought too long for cinematic release. Sjöman instead broke the movie into two pieces, and since the story of Lena in many ways is a story about Sweden at the time (a young woman finding her own stride; a country struggling to find its), he added a color tag to each movie, instead of just calling them "1" and "2".
I AM CURIOUS--YELLOW and I AM CURIOUS--BLUE are parallel films that are supposed to overlap. The Swedish flag is a yellow cross which lies over a blue field (overlapping). The films themselves are deeply rooted in scrutinizing the Swedish government.
"Film is an art at its highest level." Paul Joyce, REMEMBERING STANLEY KUBRICK
Ah Jesus, does this mean I have to sit through ANOTHER one?
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Only if you want to. BLUE is supposed to have less sex than YELLOW and more talk. I've got it on my Hulu queue but so far I've had plenty of other things to watch (or fast forward thru).
The sex wasn't an issue for me...I just thought Yellow was kind of boring, save for a few of the interviews she does about classism in Sweden, the interviews of Olof Palme and Martin Luther King, and a few scenes of the girl at home and the director.
Did you like Yellow?
I watched it out of curiousity, as I was thirteen when it came out. I figure I might as well see what all the fuss was about.
Sigh.... people really were starved for things we take for granted now.
The film was sold as an erotic film... well, "Adult" anyway... but really the sex scenes are irrelevant aside from showing some kind of physical relationship between the two leads.
The sex and coital play is very realistic rather than Porn Chic. Like the scene where the couple are in a 69-like position. As they talk, she idly, absentmindedly plays with his penis the way a kitten might play with a ball of yarn.
One thing that did jump out at me the next day-- the politicians they interview outside his home is Olaf Palme. A decade later Palme became the first (and near as I can recall) only Swedish politician assassinated in office.
A comparison might be if an American film included an interview with Robert Kennedy.
Is Blue on your Hulu list (or maybe you've watched it, since it's been almost a year since you posted that it was) just out of curiosity as well? I'm just wondering, since you say you didn't like Yellow.
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