Blue (1993 film)

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Blue is the twelfth and last film by British film director and painter Derek Jarman, before he died of AIDS. For the release of the film in 1993, the disease had made him already almost blind. The film shows about the entire game, the color blue and is underlined by the music of Simon Fisher Turner and the voices of Jarman himself and some selected actors. Topic is Jarman 's life and visions within an elegiac retrospective. The soundtrack of the film was at its premiere by the UK broadcasters Channel 4 and BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Content

The film opens with a bell ringing, and then a voice explains the impact and symbolism of the color blue. The narrative takes the bow to the psychological problems of the director, one of which is the most intense of the loss of sight. The spoken text is the episodic collection of childhood memories, diary entries, eulogies for the loss of friends, social commentary, poetic thought, discourses on policy on homosexuality, reports on the benefits of disease, aesthetic digressions and escapist fantasies.

Film analysis

Effect and symbolism

Jarman confronts the viewer with a monochrome image projection of the color blue, the field of view had to be collected in the course of his illness claims to be. He metaphors in this way his blindness, which it had at the same time no longer allows him to make a conventional film. Metaphorically corresponds the blue in the film with strong fears of loss, the accusatory music rhythms and the infinity of the sky and oceans. It is the " white canvas " within the meaning of emptiness as a counterpart to Jarman's full life over. The impression of the blue color is noise, music and speech condense into a drama in the mind's eye of the beholder.

Auditory dramaturgy

The accompanied by music and sound effects, narration is spoken by the actors Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton and John Quentin and Jarman himself. The personal exposure of the director creates the viewer direct involvement and allows him to participate in a " stream of consciousness ". The tenor varies between spirituality and agitation.

France 1993 in film Screenplay Film score Elegy Poetics Escapism Projection screen Stephen Holden Integrated Authority File
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