Filming "Blue"
It just so happened that I have started analyzing "Blue", which for a long time I treated as the second best to "Red". Now reading the script and going scene by scene I am amazed how profound a meditation it is. How that which originally I perceived as unclear is in fact extremely sophisticated.
While "Red" hits with its precision and strong interconnections obvious to anybody with open eyes, "Blue" is way more subtle. Perhaps because it deals with even more esoteric and mysterious matters than these in "Red".
The accomplishment is really head spinning. One of the explanation for this mastery may come from the way Kieslowski worked. As he explained in an interview while writing each subsequent piece about the upcoming movie he always went for wholeness. The wholeness of each "pass", even in editing was something he valued the most. This means he always thought about structure. Although it sounds obvious, it is not. At least not to me, since it's so easy to get lost in particular sub themes of a story.
For the ability of thinking "wholeness" all the time one has to have a precise and poetic mind. Otherwise it just won't work.
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