It is urgent to make a musical analysis of the blue in the Red, White and Blue Trilogy.

This is a movie full of music. Julie's husband is a famous composer. They have a lovely daughter and are very happy. One day, three people were sitting in the car, and Julie's husband told a joke when a car accident happened. Happiness was shattered in an instant-Julie lost her husband and daughter. Sudden blows often make people unprepared. Julie began to close herself off, but everything around her reminded her that life went on. The melody in her husband's unfinished music, like lines that follow her everywhere, is mixed with Julie, pulling her back from the illusory calm to the cruel reality again and again.

The biggest feature of this film is that it runs through a theme all the time. The whole film is 90 minutes long, and the theme presents 2-6 sections every 6 or 7 minutes on average. It not only plays the role of rendering emotions and promoting the development of the plot, but also directly participates in the convergence of movie scene transformation. Although this theme will reappear every 6 or 7 minutes, it is not boring because it is played with many different instruments. For example, at 0: 30: 50 in the film, Julie gradually calmed down when she moved to a new home. Here, the film played this theme with stringed instruments and mixed it with the noise generated by electronic music. The theme of this scene was repeated three times with different noises, and each time it was harsh, adding a little disorder to Julie's seemingly calm heart. This theme is also played on the flute many times in movies.

The theme was first presented at 0: 09: 2 1, and the husband and daughter went to the funeral. Julie couldn't attend the funeral because of her injury, so she had to lie in bed and watch from the screen. Here, music connects two time and space-the funeral scene and Julie's hospital. The bright timbre of bassoon and trombone is saturated with endless grief for the dead. Two coffins, one big and one small, separated Julie from her husband and daughter for two days. Julie's trembling fingers repeatedly touched the screen, which made people feel this kind of life and death separation in despair.

People and animals are very similar in some ways. When they are injured, they will choose a person and lick the wound slowly. Julie also wants to get out of the sad cycle through self-treatment. A cabin in the Woods was bathed in warm sunshine, and Julie seemed to have fallen asleep sitting in the rocking chair in the room. Then a faint blue light enveloped her face. Music entry is still the theme. In section ***7, the high pressure of copper pipes and the rumbling drums suddenly broke the peace and harmony, followed by the bright and sad trombone. Since then, copper pipes and trombones have been used alternately, and bassoon pipes are urgent and powerful; Trombone is relatively slow, long and sad. One strong and one weak, forming a strong rhythm, like "drumming", constantly beating people's hearts. At the end of the fifth bar, someone asked for Julie, and the voice came in, "Julie?" Then the sonorous brass music sounded again. It seems that this simple greeting is like a thunder to Julie, and then the theme ends in the long and bright voice of trombone.

This piece of music plays a dual role. The first is the externalization of Julie's inner activities. Seemingly calm, but the pain left by the disaster, like this powerful music, unexpectedly awakened Julie from the illusory peace. This melody adopts a big mode, strong and gloomy, with a strong sense of rhythm, giving people a feeling of knocking at the door. It always reminds: don't forget, be sad, and be sad to live. In addition, music itself also plays the role of montage editing. Music makes the film from quiet atmosphere to sudden tension, which indicates that something will happen next. Sure enough, after the end of the fifth bar music, a black screen appeared in the film. Then, strong copper music sounded again. The film has been cut to another scene-a friend of the newspaper. Their conversation:

Reporter: I know you don't want to see me.

Julie: Yes.

Reporter: May I come in?

Julie: No.

Reporter: This has nothing to do with the interview.

Julie: What was that?

Reporter: I am writing a story about your husband, but there is one thing I don't understand.

Julie: What?

Reporter: Celebrating the European Union Movement.

Julie: Nothing happened.

Reporter: Julie, you have changed. You used to be different.

Julie: Did you know that I had an accident? I lost my husband and children in a car accident.

(Julie turns away)

Reporter: Julie, did you really write your husband's music?

From this conversation, we can know that Julie doesn't want to get in touch with the outside world after the car accident, and anything that can remind her of her memory may stimulate her sensitive nerves and make her suffer. Therefore, we can understand why this theme has such a strong sense of rhythm and what is amazing-life makes us have nowhere to run.

The music in Blue is not only the externalization of Julie's inner feelings, but also a guide for Julie's actions. It's Julie's inner music. Whenever it rings, it will guide Julie to the next step. Julie returned to the suburban villa where she and her husband used to work. Next to the piano are her husband's unfinished works. Julie looked at this piece of music, and when the photographer shot the music with virtual focus, there was a sense of blur. Julie seems to be looking through tears. With the appearance of every music notation, the piano sounds, and Julie's hand unconsciously moves the piano cover. The loud sound of the piano cover interrupted the music and awakened Julie from her sadness. How to get rid of or just relieve this pain, Julie needs to find an outlet to vent her emotions-betray what she once cherished, sell her house and move to a remote community, and Julie looks for her husband's unfinished works or, to be precise, her unfinished works with her husband. There is a very good piece of music that is a recurring theme in the film. Julie found it, and the movie sang this theme for us. Julie took it and threw it into the garbage truck. As the score was gradually dragged into the garbage truck, the chorus seemed to be distorted and finally disappeared. Here, music is everywhere, guiding and pushing the plot forward.

There are several scenes of Julie swimming in the film. She swam from shore to shore and back again, just like swimming, but she never reached the shore. Just as she was about to go ashore, the moving sound of the copper tube came in, and Julie fell into the water again, as if she were pushed into the water by this powerful music. Julie curled up in a pool of blue water, and her sadness seemed to soak up the bone marrow. (0:45:39)

This sadness oppressed Julie like a heavy burden. Because self-treatment is so difficult, Julie thought of relying on her mother, who is her only relative. (0: 55: 52) In the nursing home, the sun is shining, the old people look very peaceful, and cheerful music is playing. Set off Julie's heavy heart. Julie came here to visit her mother. My mother is insane and can't recognize Julie. Hearing the bad news of Julie, she remained indifferent. This is their conversation:

Julie: I want nothing, no property, no friends, no love. It's all a lie.

Mother: Do you have any money? children

Julie: We have everything we need.

Mother: This is very important. People can't refuse everything.

Even if a person doesn't remember anything, she still knows one thing: possession, so that she can hold as many things as possible in her hand.

When she came back from her mother, the first thing Julie did was borrow a cat to kill those little mice at home. Julie seems to be caught in a sea of sadness. But things suddenly changed for the better. The husband had a lover before his death. (1: 14) Julie learned about it from Olivier. Oliver asked, "What do you want?" Immediately after the black screen, the strong theme of brass performance entered. Julie smiled and said "Go and see her". The director's handling of the characters' emotions here is unique. There are no words and no exaggerated performances by actors. Instead, it gave a black screen and gave the audience an imagination space. And through music to express Julie's shock and complicated mood after hearing the news. At this time, Julie seemed to be rolling in the deep like a black screen, and suddenly lost her direction. One party is still struggling with this feeling; The other party has looked down on her. Her sadness suddenly disappeared.

Perhaps the so-called lofty pain is originally what we imagined. Life goes on. Her husband died, and Olivier loved Julie deeply. What we have to do now is to accept life. Julie left her country villa to her husband's lover and his posthumous son. Julie visited her mother again through the glass and said goodbye.

Julie finally accepted her fate. At the end of the film, Julie and Oliver seem to be curled up in the womb like babies. Rumbling drums and exciting brass pipes came in. The gorgeous satin soprano is loud and bright. Then the camera switches to a series of scenes: the teenager who witnessed the car accident, the mother with dementia, the nurse, the prostitute, the baby in the B-ultrasound, the mother's serene smile, and Julie's wet as a baby's eyes. Life is like an unfolding picture. The music gradually slowed down, from bright to rich, and finally the camera was fixed on Julie's thoughtful face.