In the film, Emma asked Adele to write literature, but was rejected by Adele. Because Adele didn't want to show her inner world. Ironically, all of us are watching/peeping into Adele's life. We are well aware of her unique sexuality, her mundane hobbies and jobs, her endless libido and appetite...
Cauchy is inclined to Adele, the title blue is the warmest color is named after Adele's point of view. Adele under the lens of Cauchy has an independent loneliness and an overly pure simplicity. She is a loner, has no real friends, simple and ordinary hobbies, introverted and weak personality, like a deer just waiting to be hunted.
This is also Adele's greatest charm and value, she is just a creative object to Emma. Emma may be an artist, I can only use the word maybe. Because without Adele, Emma's work would never shine. At the party, Emma and her friends are discussing the high-flying artists: Schiele ("Sick Beauty"), Klimt ("Excessive Ornamentation")... Her friends are the owners of a well-known gallery , Ph.D. in the History of Art History, Actor in Action Movie, and Pregnant Painter (Lise). Adele couldn't intervene in their high-spirited conversation, and could only serve spaghetti silently. Seeing this, I can't help but want to laugh at the self-righteousness of this group of so-called high-level intellectuals and young artists. They are masking their ignorance and mediocrity with the brilliance of history's great artists.
Art cannot be learned, it arises from one's unique perception of life. Creation is actually an externalization of perception. Adele doesn't want to create because she's perceiving life. Even if Emma and the others have created, won praise, and received honors, so what? They are lost in a sense of superiority and lose the real meaning of life.
So the director shows us Adele's life from start to finish. She can't cross the class, because the class is full of barriers between living habits, money status, taste and hobbies. Adele was disheartened, with snot and messy hair. She is too primitive, and Emma's depiction is actually a kind of sympathy and utilization of the upper-level overlooking. Just as bourgeois writers and painters like to depict people living at the bottom.
Adele is unique and sad. She is like a child lost in nothingness, desperately begging for Emma's love. Adele lacks a clear sense of self and always becomes a vassal. She can't resist and let life watch her. Just as her nudes are shown in the paintings, they are criticized, exploited, sold and compared. Emma is so cunning to use love as a tool. When Emma discovers the insurmountable gulf that exists between each other, she seizes on Adele's mistake and decisively chooses Liz, a pregnant painter, who corresponds to her soul on her plane.
Blue is the warmest color, the summation of all Adele's true love. Because blue is Emma's hair color, it's a mature display of presence. At the end, Adele also wore blue, like a kind of nostalgia, more like a kind of overgrowth.
As we watch Adele's life, Cauchy's bold eroticism draws the eye and conveys a terrifying value. We can't get a sense of identity and fulfillment from love, and we can only live ordinary lives as mammals over and over again. Creation is the mapping and flat presentation of life. We should dive headfirst into life, holding our breath and live our whole life.
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