blue, the first film in the three colors trilogy, with liberty as its subject as julie found herself being freed due to a very grievous circumstances, and she attempt to liberate herself from all former ties. ultimately a futile attempt. on a second watch i noticed that music has played integral part to the story. the same track played in the funeral for her world-renowned husband and daughter is used 4 other times in this movies, all with the same jarring style of a fade out accompanying this track, but only to discover we're brought back to the same scene. time barely passes, at least for the audiences that is, while julie deals with denial at first but she eventually come to terms. blue is almost personified as a character in this movie. so many camera technique employed in here, how the camera tries to contrast the color(julie in blue, lucille in red), how the camera sometimes cover the top one third portion of the film during the conversation between julie and her mother... at one point it's too much for me to actually focus on the plot(or rather choices she make to propel the narrative forward), to see how she actively avoiding every connection but failed so. one thing that is notable for me is julie's relationship with lucille, catalysed by that blue ornaments, was one of the most moving moment about empathy. the unspoken connection between them both. another notable relationship is between julie and her mother(her mother suffers from alzheimer). her mother, failed to recognise julie as her daughter is also a form of liberty, only more extreme. the moment is again signified by the bungee jump featured in a tv show they are both watching. i found this film to be more enjoyable if one view at it on its most surface(a study on grief), being analytical is actually detrimental to how one might enjoy it. symbolism is actually a bit too rampant at times. three colors : blue borrows julie's journey where she eventually confined herself back to relationships, reestablishing and reunion with her past that she was once so determined to abandon, to convey someone from liberation to finishing a score named european unity. not exactly a confinement, but a union.