Analysis of the Film Bleu Relevance of Bleu To France

Themes Love or nothing In Bleu, the director makes use of Julie’s grief to plunge her into a state of nothingness. She wants to feel nothing, remember nothing, do nothing, and love nothing. If anyone is to ask her what she wants to do, she will always reply â€Å"nothing†. This is best exemplified by her dialogue extracted from the film - â€Å"Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing.† Sound has a presence of nothingness. And we realize this in the several scenes of Julie swimming in the pool. We can tell that she uses the recurrent plunges into water to dip into the state of nothingness, where she will just submerge herself totally like she is drowning herself (Coates, 1996). The reverse of nothingness is, of course, love. In the final sequence, where Julie finally comprehends her purpose in living on, the music Patrice and Julie has composed is played, and it features a solo soprano singing Saint Paul’s 1 Corinthians 13 in Greek. It says in this passage that - If I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. We can tell therefore, that Kieslowski challenges these two emotion extremes, linking them at the same time by showing their interdependence, while swinging Julie from one end of her emotional rollercoaster to another. Liberty But Bleus relationship to the concept of liberty is deeply ironic here, since Kieslowski, as we shall see, regards absolute freedom and love as opposites. Julies awakening comes