Analysis Of The Movie Blue The Warmest Color

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The film Blue is the warmest color investigates three separate ideas due to its unique content. It investigates sexual orientation, gender roles and the semiotics used to reflect queer relationships . This in turn accurately portrays the gay community, which it represents in the film.
The film focuses mainly on two characters Adele and Emma. Adele is a high school teacher who is starting to explore her inner self as a adult. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is ignored by a close friend who she does find attractive. She dreams of something more, she meets Emma a free spirited girl whom Adele’s friends reject due to her newly found sexual orientation, and by association, begin to reject Adèle herself. The relationship …show more content…

Sexual orientation refers to which people a person is physically attracted to. Adele and Emma are clearly attracted to girls and th (youtube.com)eir sexual orientation is therefore lesbian. Gender roles refers a role in which each different gender is expected to fulfill. The characters in the film Blue is the warmest color do not conform to traditional gender roles which they would be expected to fulfill. Their friends are not accepting the result of them not fulfilling their gender roles. They are not used to other people breaking the norm. Their parents most likely taught these ideas of gender roles at a young age. They therefore at first make Emma an outcast with Adele who becomes one later on in the film. The friends exclude the girls from the group because they simply do not understand them. One of Adele’s friends even reacts violently learning that Adele is lesbian. The characters can thereby be seen as queer because they do not simply conform to gender roles. They do not conform to others ideas gender roles because they are simply too different. They are portrayed as such in the film in order to examine the absurd nature of gender roles, which once again accurately portrays the gay community in society. (gender roles in society …show more content…

The color blue is symbolic of two separate emotions that Adele and Emma experience throughtout the film. These emotions are pleasure and pain (blueisthewarmestcolormovie). Adele and Emma’s very first encounter reveals elements of blue. All Adele could see whilst walking past a crowd of people is Emma’s blue hair and jacket. Adele’s first kiss reveals that Emma is wearing blue nail polish. It is used especially well when the color is used in the while Adele and Emma have sex. The color blue is therefore especially important in the film because pleasure is emphasized throught the use of this color.

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