The ending

although lets be honest, no matter how good donnie darko is. Three Colours Blue does it far better. I feel that Donnie works as well as it does simply because of the perfect use of music. Three colours has this and so much more.

wow. that was a great interpretation of the overall message of the film. you even got what the scholar had to say! She said the main character was running away from her life because it was too painful to face, and that Binoche wasn't truly living until she faced it.

Actually, i think she went a little further and said that true liberation, the kind that Julie Binoche seeks, is impossible. Liberation only comes from "constraining" yourself in your relationship with others. She said it was a veiled allegory for the failure of democracy. Kind of interesting. I see a corrolary in feminism.

The whole point being I didn't get it until I saw the dvd special features. on that point, i salute you.

as for the other earlier point you made, i disagree. the reason he insists on getting credit for the symphony is his sense of failure. he hasn't done justice to the vision of the original composer, or who he thinks the original composer is, Binoche's dead husband. And so in a sense he doesn't want to ruin a perfectly marvelous piece of music with his heavy, trundling notes. On the phone with Binoche, hanging his head, he confesses, "it is mine, clumsy, but mine." The dialogue, his voice, are heavy with defeat.

I think there's also a sense that he has put a certain amount of sweat equity into the thing, and despite his failure and exhaustian, he's proud of it.

But look at the scene again. His sense of defeat is palpable. He's unable to rise to the challenge, and he knows it.

I guess what I'm saying is that it wasn't through blind devotion to Binoche or self-effacing generosity that he deferred finishing the symphony to her. That's romantic, but I don't think it's true. True, in the beginning of the film he pulled out all the stops to get her to start composing again. Not for the sake of art, but so she would feel something, anything, and start living again. But I think Binoche fell by the wayside and his obsession with artistic integrity took over, however, briefly, and he just felt like he couldn't do the symphony justice.

no palucci!!!!!!!! this movie was first than American beauty. This beautifull piece of art evokes a great expectation in the spectator. It's a piece of work that can be study and can be watch witout the other two parts of the trilogy, but than, what's the whole point of calling it a trilogy? It;s important that the viewers and people here discussing this also complete this Kieslowski trilogy the way is meant to...I just said it because no one talked about it, and of course there's big connection between them, a conection as close as a part of an atom. The three of them are part of an atom that can not be desintegrate, an atom also colored by the blue, the white and the red of a France flag, a france story, an universal story!!!
Long time to Kieslowski cinema.