I know the underlying theme of this film is liberty, but was it ever explained how Julie was so frequently able to get access into what was clearly a public swimming pool, to go swimming at night alone. Yes, it did give us the opportunity for lots of ravishing blue images, but on a realistic level?š
shareLike, I don't know, a public swimming pool membership maybe? I know I'm being wildly unrealistic here, but maybe we should just exercise maximum suspension of belief here.
shareIs the empty blue pool more a state of mind than a physical fact? Among other possibilities, could it symbolise the waters of the womb, which we see on Sandrine's scan? Or even the waters that covered the face of the earth in the Judaeo-Christian creation myth, before land was exposed and terrestrial life could begin? I mention the latter because he agape, the divine love that created life, is hymned in the resounding chorus at the end of the film.
Yet we are brought back to very everyday reality when the schoolkids in white and red plunge into the pool and Julie asks Lucille if she wears knickers. Though I don't think the filmmakers intended to give us a great deal of realism. Rather than suspend disbelief, should we not invest too much literal belief in the first place?