1) Relate what was discussed in class or the text to the
screening.
Krzysztof Kieślowski the polish born film maker started his
career as a dressing room attendant in a theater. While working he was a
student of film. Kieślowski’s films did not coincide with the happenings of the
day. There were no slogans or catchy phrases.
Politics, culture and social detail were not the premise of his work
which was ironic because most of his early work were documentary films.
Krzysztof Kieślowski gained worldwide renown for the
Decalogue series, The Double Life of Veronique and Three Colors: Blue, Red and
White. A filmmaker whose simple stories deal with difficult, essential and
universal questions about complex human feelings. Kieślowski began paying close
attention to visual effects, carefully selecting the hues of his images,
filming his heroines differently, highlighting and adding to their being
through color. The feeling that was displayed in Blue was the sadness
associated with the feeling of blue. The use of these colors and the creation
of hue is a trademark of Kieślowski.
2) Find a related
article and summarize the content.
To summarize, Rodger Ebert deemed this movie as an adult
movie. There are very little words
spoken but the movie was very emotional. The characters did not provide any evidence
of thoughts there are tools of the story. One must pay close attention to the
story line and to understand were the characters are trying to take us.
Julie, the woman whose husband dies do not grieve in the
traditional way which make the plot interesting. While dealing with the loss of
her husband, she embraces her sexuality and tries to remove herself from
society. Because she is so decisive one would get the feeling that is thinking
and she does not in fact need to do anything that is obvious.
By the end of the film another character was introduced who
was her husband’s mistress. Again, Julie does not react in a traditional
jealous way. The two women then unite to figure out the future.
This film challenges the imagination which can be a new concept
for an audience. European films are very different from those in the United
States but a must see.
3) Apply the article to the film screened in class.
As discussed in class, this film is a French film and is
part of a trilogy. The color Bleu and the emotion of the film were constants. A
heart-dropping tragedy that overcomes its storyline to cleverly talk about the
price of liberty. The somewhat obvious motif of blue is both subtle, while the
simultaneously analytical and emotional use of music is beyond wonderful
(swelling and going to black during her grieving).
4) Write a critical analysis of the film, including your opinion,
formed as a result of the screening, class discussions, text material and the
article.
Blue makes frequent visual allusions to its title: numerous
scenes are shot with blue filters or blue lighting, and many objects are blue.
When Julie thinks about the musical score that she has tried to destroy, blue
light overwhelms the screen. The film also includes several references to the
colors of the tricolor that inspired Kieślowski's trilogy: several scenes are
dominated by red light, and in one scene, children dressed in white bathing
suits with red floaters jump into the blue swimming pool. Another aspect in the
film are the fade outs, which are traditionally used in movies to represent
time passing or to conclude a certain scene, instead bring the viewers back to
the point in time which the fade out began. The occasional fade outs and fade
ins to Julie's character are used to represent an extremely subjective point of
view
CHECKLIST FOR PLAGIARISM
1) (X) I have not handed in this
assignment for any other class.
2) (X) If I reused any information
from other papers I have written for other classes, I clearly explain that in
the paper.
3) (X) If I used any passages word
for word, I put quotations around those words, or used indentation and citation
within the text.
4) (X) I have not padded the
bibliography. I have used all sources cited in the bibliography in the text of
the paper.
5) (X) I have cited in the
bibliography only the pages I personally read.
6) (X) I have used direct quotations
only in cases where it could not be stated in another way. I cited the source
within the paper and in the bibliography.
7) (X) I did not so over-use direct
quotations that the paper lacks interpretation or originality.
8) (X) I checked yes on steps 1-7 and
therefore have been fully transparent about the research and ideas used in my
paper.
Name: Carleen Oliver Date: February 8, 2018
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