What does blue represent? - Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) Discussion

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[–] anitric2000 20 years ago

Nyekulturny...they all represent those colors' meanings. Especially Bleu. If one pays attention, you'll see that the film IS about Liberty. She is seeking liberty...just not in the grand sense as someone might think. Because of the films 'Unification of Europe' theme, the film shows us just how everyone IS connected...thus aiding in her struggle. Remember the man on the street playing her husband's music on the flute. How is this possible? It's just a coincidence, showing this 'unification' and also how she cannot fully liberate herself from her past...thus the ending.

Why else would these films be called BLUE WHITE and RED!? There is always a direct correlation...you just have to watch them to understand.

"Last survivor of the Nostromo...signing off..."

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[–] jtham-1 20 years ago

Blue represents Liberty in the French flag

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[–] matt-439 20 years ago

yes, in Kieslowski's interpretation of the french flag.
but blue is originally the colour for (a republican) Paris, white being the traditional french (royal) colour and red the people.

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[–] Tetra123 20 years ago

I found "Bleu" to be the most interesting movie of the three.

"Bleu" also made me think of the overall theme of the film. The color encapsulates the mood. Think Pablo Picasso's paintings during his "Blue period".

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[–] Tetra123 20 years ago

His intentions seem so clear to me now!

;)

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[–] skater5280 20 years ago

blue accually represents freedom. the whole movie is about her trying to get free from ppl in general. but as time passes, she cant be free from society so she ends up being free from the depression of her loss

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[–] gil_cepeda 20 years ago

Blue also represents SADNESS, there you have the music genre Blues....it's a sad music, full of pain and sorrow, we can give an interpretation of SADNESS to this film if the colours doesn't have anything to do with the meaning of the french flag.

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[–] anitric2000 19 years ago

Did you watch the movie? Sure, not a lot 'happy' happens. but to say it represents sadness is terribly missing the overall point of the film.

"Last survivor of the Nostromo...signing off..."

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[–] Kinematico 17 years ago

Bleu represents "loss" (one of the main themes on Kieslowski's works), also represents "sadness". And of course "Liberty" or better said "Freedom" as it was the intention of Kieslowski that the main theme of each movie from the trilogy should represent the motto of the french revolution: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.

The character of Julie suffers the loss of his husband and daughter, she falls in sadness and depression but at the end she overcomes everything, she's freed, liberated from her sadness and loss and ends the movie with a note of hope and a brief smile.

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[–] pete-95 19 years ago

Blue, like the movie Decalogue, deals with dilemma. Decalogue deals with moral dilemma; Blue deals with freedom dilemma: one cannot be free unless he/she accepts the opposite -- confinement. Love making behind the fish tank at the end of the film visually states just that.

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[–] jaimedelfin 20 years ago

Blue represents St. Dennis, White represents St. Joan of Arc, Red represents St. Martin Chevalier; the christian Patron Saints of France in the Middle Ages. The significance harks back to the foundation of modern french monarchy, and was used to represent France ever since. Of course, this isn't quite the intention of Republican Revolutionaries wearing the three-color insignia; so they came up with "new" meanings for the traditional colors just as they tried to do by renaming the months in the calendar. The latter intent just didn't stick, but any French will tell you that these colors stand for the Revolutionary Values of Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity: the seeds of modern human rights and conditions for civilized society.

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[–] VinceWatkins 19 years ago

Blue represents liberty. No there is no reason that this arbitrary color should be seen as literally representing such an ideal, but, nevertheless, that connotation has been ascribed to it by the French.

As for Kieslowski, he clearly wants to take the concept of liberty or freedom and explore another side of it. We all think of liberty as a cherished ideal, but Kieslowski picks it up and turns it over and around until we can see all shades of blue, even the darkest ones.

Julie is a wife and mother with all the responsibilities of those roles and she is locked in by love and duty to be certain things.

After the accident, she is free. Completely and terribly liberated. As Kristofferson said, "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

This is the story of a woman coping with her sudden liberty, foisted upon her by tragedy. She is not seeking freedom as others have suggested, but lost in it, unable to chain herself back to the world she has known.

Kieslowski is perhaps the only man who could make us truly question whether or not we really understand, possess, or desire freedom. Ahhh, genius.

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[–] amir_6179 19 years ago

I think blue in this film implies the type of moral freedom and relief after a kind of internal suffer and revolution,Yuo can see in many scenes of the movie that this color always sedates Julie and after any kind of bad news,Julie is in a blue atmospheric light generated mostly by emarold night light or the background of pool in which she swims(always it's dim blue!!!!)

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[–] Raian-kun 19 years ago

Couldn't Blue also be referring to her feelings of sorrow? You know, as in "feelin' blue"?

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[–] rodriguez_phi1 17 years ago

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

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