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Blue, dir. Hiroshi Ando (2002)
Blue, dir. Hiroshi Ando (2002)
Blue, dir. Hiroshi Ando (2002)
so im watching Blue (2002) dir. Ando Hiroshi. I think it's an okay movie overall. I'm finding the overall lack of adults to be an intriguing narrative point. These kids aren't really being watched over, and in some ways that's freeing (chance for two girls to get close) but also causes massive problems (one girl is raped, the other groomed; both spend a lot of time by themselves).
The one time we see an adult interact with a student/child, he doesn't believe her when she says she wasn't sleeping in her class. The handful of times we see male characters in this, it's the adult who accused the protag of lying, a boy who raped the protagonist, the man who groomed the protagonist's love interest, and the protagonists brother, who reminds her of the grapes her not-(former? ex-lover? quasi?) lover gave her during what I can only call breakup scene. He then throws them away. The protagonist soon goes and buys another bunch of grapes. I think this is going to lead to reconciliation between the protagonist and her LI.
There's also a thread in here about being believed. Endo (LI) believed Kayako (Protag) about not sleeping in class. Endo sensed something had happened to Kayako (the rape) and asked about it; rather than be honest about that, Kayako confessed her feelings for Endo, which Endo reciprocated.
But then Endo disappeared with the man who was grooming her and didn't tell Kayako about it, even when Kayako confronted her and expected the truth. Endo lied, so Kayako left. I don't know how much Endo or Kayako understand the gravity of Endo being groomed by that man (I don't fault them for this -- they're children). I don't think it was the first time it happened (can't quite recall) but this loops back around to the lack of a solid adult presence in these girls' lives. If Endo's parents had actually been around in her life more, I feel like she wouldn't have been groomed (and impregnated; she had an abortion). Not just because they'd be the barrier between her and that man, but because she'd seek healthy adult attention from her parents instead of filling her parents' neglect/absence with a married man who's wife was also pregnant at the time he was acting up.
The point of the movie that I'm at now has Hayako learning how to paint, inspired by an art book that Endo loaned/gave her.