Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs
Rouge (Switzerland / Poland / France 1994)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21204142 |
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| Authors | John Izod (0000-0001-5124-5698, University of Stirling), Joanna Dovalis |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 70-94 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jung Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1934-2039 • E-ISSN: 1934-2047 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/jung.2008.2.4.70 |
| OpenAlex | W2139054910 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Cultural associations with red are potent. They include blood and intense passion, injury and death, love and life; and all these are authentic indications of Kieslowski’s themes. Yet, in this film, the connotations of the color are not exclusively traditional because the heroine, a model, will have her image displayed on a gigantic scarlet billboard to promote bubble gum. The model's glamorous, color-saturated but transient world and the gray existence of an emotionally constipated senex come into contact. The initially hostile contact between this ill-matched pair brings them not into each other's arms—this film is no romantic comedy— but, through discovery of each other's weaknesses and strengths, to a degree of completion (not perfection) in which conscious and unconscious are better aligned. In part, they are moved by synchronicities in which the life of a young advocate begins to echo the Judge’s past. Not only this factor (which extends the reach of the drama beyond the odd couple) but the ever-present cultural sociocultural background of advertising and judicial morality generalize the issues of the main protagonists across the European collective. Eventually the unforgettable calamity with which the film ends brings into focus the characteristics of the main protagonists from the entire trilogy that renders them psychologically convincing survivors
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Drama · Falling in love · Literature · Movie theater · Passion · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Spectacle · Trilogy · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Law · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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