Like the sequence of shots, I enjoyed the trilogy in blue, white, and red order. The first time I saw Kieslowski's works, I felt very uncomfortable, and gradually I felt the special temperament of this director. Artists are presumably destined to be alone. Keith also has this loneliness and pessimism, which is based on a thorough analysis and understanding of society and human nature. Just like the three primary colors of blue, white and red, it is a symbol of freedom, equality and fraternity in Western civilization, and Keith expresses his interpretation of these three words delicately from three stories.
Blue
, free.
The heroine lost her composer husband and daughter in a car accident, which is presumably the setting for freedom. But how can this be called freedom? She chose to be cut off from everything around her, and of course her past. She refused an interview with reporters, discarded her husband's unfinished symphony manuscript, moved house, but brought the symbolic blue chandelier to her new home... Completely give up, how to do it, close How can I get rid of the symphony that comes to my mind. During treatment in the hospital, she swallowed a whole bottle of pills, her mouth was deformed because she couldn't fit it, and she was left with endless sadness, but she still had no courage and spit out a mouthful of pills.. ....Her freedom has turned into a blend of tears and pool water in a blue pool late at night, turned into refusal to sign the community's joint protest letter to accidentally protect a prostitute's residency rights, turned into refusal of all With the help and advice of people, I finally decided to continue composing the works left by my husband...
I have to say, a lot of long shots and successive silences are used to render the unspeakable sadness. And the strong sense of depression is also directly projected from the heroine to the hearts of the audience. Such a sense of depression and tragic reality overwhelmed me, and my instinct was to resist.
White
, equal.
All men are created equal. All people are created equal. The two in love are even more unequal.
Wife Dominy, "the heroine of the Before series", used a divorce petition to shove her husband Carroll out of the house, and even humiliated Carroll, who was already penniless, with her new love. Furious, Carroll returned to her hometown, started a real estate business, became a millionaire and regained her sexuality. Carroll, who has made a comeback, hopes to regain his wife's love, but only refuses again.
Maybe it's the deep love, so the hatred. The love turns into an elaborate conspiracy, and Carroll's revenge is dramatic.
This is another sad story. Is tit for tat an equality? In the last shot, the wife gestures in sign language in prison: Even if I am hanged, I will not leave, I will stay and let you put on my wedding ring again. Watching this scene with binoculars outside the prison, the husband cried... At this time, a strong sense of loneliness struck again, swallowing up the wedding scene that was both real and illusory, shrouded in white. This is self-punishment and false equality.
Honghong
, fraternity.
Perhaps because of the blue and white foreshadowing, red is particularly bright and warm in my eyes. Red and the first two films are not very different in style, but under the red rendering that must appear in every shot, the usual pessimism is much brighter.
After doubting the hypocrisy of freedom and equality, fraternity comes next. The heroine, Valentina, bumped into a lost dog, and she also met the dog's owner, a retired judge who had lost faith in the hypocritical real life and tapped his neighbor's phone every day.
Such an encounter, like Charlie meeting Frank in Scent and Knowing a Woman, changed them both. During the wiretapping, the old judge heard the husband flirting with his lover behind the back of his wife and children, the old man lied to his daughter to visit her again and again, until the daughter no longer believed the old man, and heard the big drug lord talking and laughing about drugs. Deal... The old judge also didn't hesitate to point out the hypocrisy of fraternity, like she saved the dog just so that she wouldn't feel guilty. In the end, people just love themselves. She said: You are wrong, I pity you. She certainly has good reason to pity an eavesdropper who is indifferent to reality because of the betrayal of love at a young age.
The atmosphere of the film gradually changed with the conversation between the two. The old judge chose to turn himself in. The judge who tried him was similar to him in 20 years of reincarnation...
What is needed between people is just a little more recognition and understanding, which is probably fraternity. So I was surprised to see similar shots appear in the trilogy. An old man took a glass bottle and moved to the recycling bin step by step, but it was hard to reach. In "Blue", the woman who lost all hope didn't notice this old woman; in "White", the lost hero chose to ignore it; in "Red", Valentina stepped forward without a word and offered a helping hand.
Russell said: "The thirst for love, the quest for knowledge, and the inexorable sympathy for human suffering, these three pure but incomparably strong passions have dominated my life." Freedom, equality, fraternity, you can see it The hypocrisy of it, you can also see its incomparably real existence.
Looking at Keith's blue, white and red trilogy, I strongly feel the ingenious design of the screenwriter, with a lot of metaphors in every detail. The allegorical ending of the trilogy is a precious hope in the pessimistic atmosphere that is shrouded everywhere. My favorite is naturally red.
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