Blue

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Audience Member A blue so blue. Listening voices over a blue screen. Only a blue screen. A fading life. Blind by his disease. Imagining the image not as a memory from the past but as an effect of the present. Derek Jarman is about to die from AIDS. 1993. Like so many others. The chaos of death when it happens all of a sudden. AIDS. What is left from our own identity when everyone is dying? Things didn't use to be like that. Maybe they've always been. Everything must come to an end. Blue. The future is impossible but the present, stil exists. Staring at blue. What a sad way to die. What are good ways to die? There's always this tragedy of never coming back. What an incomprehensible end. One by one dying of AIDS. Voices, sounds, words, and music. The image refused to show itself. The imagination guides you in this unique interpretation of yours. A movie in your head. No screening can't be the same. What is pain? What is suffering? Experience to be lived alone surrounded by the others. Others who have their own pain. There's always a worst version of pain. More suffering. More empathy needed. I feel lost. Everything is blue. The movie is gone. The colour blue stuck in my head. Staring at someone who's dying, now here I am questioning my own existentiality. Feeling the possibility of coming to the end. Maybe I feel nothing. Here I am in front of my computer thinking of words to please someone with the expectation to be read. My legs sticking to the white plastic chair from the lack of pants. The heat of my computer. The weight of my glasses. The alcool that I'm drinking. The taste of it. Plum. Is it cold or warm inside? I can hear the sound of the street from here. Living in the present requires such an effort. Purrr. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Blue is a unicolor requiem to a director robbed of his sight, a cinematic composition of his illness and imminent demise. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Derek Jarman's last theatrical feature, made while he was dying of AIDS-related complications mirrors his fading eyesight by filling the screen with a solid shade of blue for the entire running time. Over the colour field, Jarman talks about his illness and his background, reflecting on his imminent death among other topics. The most common negative reaction to this film is that it's "not really a movie" due to the monotonous visual component, but it's not fair to say that the blueness serves no purpose. It puts you into Jarman's shoes to some degree and serves to help you focus on what he is saying and feel some of the force. I personally think it's a beautiful film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Blue screen, and a lot of droning. Don't say I didn't warn you. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member "The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip". Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member A truly ponderous, futuristic film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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