Adele is a teenager looking for her place. In the midst of youthful effervescence, she meets Emma and suffers from an unknown fascination until then. Discover your first love. Like him, come the first kisses, passion, first caresses. Commitment, sympathy. But over time the first discussions, the first martyrs of the routine and the first complications, begin to appear, until the inevitable result begins to appear: the first loss of love.
Is blue the hottest color?It speaks in the same way of the two sides of love, in a way as real as Adele’s spaghetti way of eating, besides being an awareness film about sexual diversity, it is a love song in all its versions. To universal love, capable of the best and the worst.
- Love as an engine of life.
- Such as energy.
- Pulse.
- Inexhaustible source of emotions and attitudes.
- When he sees the film.
- He is palpable.
- Able to feel in his own stomach.
- You can almost feel it.
- Emotions come off the screen and appear.
- In our eyes.
- Making us feel our first love.
- Relive.
- For better or worse.
- Latent emotions.
- Perhaps forgotten.
Majestic two actresses, believable at all times. Your hair, your look, your gestures. The two characters are so well interpreted that one feels for a moment that he looks at a kind of real espionage, like those who see life by a peephole.
On the one hand, young Adele, with her always improvised and careless ponytail, is innocent in life, emotional, passionate, brutal, sensual, inseurgida and strong in equal parts; on the other hand Emma, with her blue hair that seems to speak of creativity, originality, intellectual and cultured life, coldness, analysis, tranquility and coherence.
These two halves collide, merging for a moment, dyeing everything blue, until they are separated again, a separation that leaves in each of them a consequence, a mark.
“Love is one of the most intense emotions. People can lie, betray and even kill on their behalf, even wish death when they lose it. This can confuse anyone, at any age. “
There is a powerful psychological theory that explains love, its genesis, its components and its different forms: the triangular theory of love. In his book “The Love Triangle: Intimacy, Passion and Commitment,” Robert Sternberg suggests that for true love to exist, there must be three factors:
All three elements appear in the film and can even be viewed upwards. First, Adele feels the need to see Emma again, to see her again, to get to know her better. The desire for intimacy begins to activate. With him, once our own borders cross, we see passion, sexual desire.
This angle is strong and remarkable in the relationship they have and plays a very important role in the decision to assume a sentimental relationship, we see how the real complications with commitment appear, and it will be the angle that will defeat the very stability of the relationship they maintain.
According to the author of the theory, a relationship that combines all three elements is more likely to last longer than a relationship that simply combines two or an isolated element, there are 7 possible combinations that determine 7 types of love, according to Sternberg:
Following this same logic, we can say that the first love would be the first time in the story of a person in which he feels a kind of what we talked about earlier, it is common for this to happen in adolescence, as in Adele’s case. : therefore, when it comes to the first love, it is usually located at that time. While it is true that this does not always happen during this stage of life: there are people who relate love much earlier and others much later.
From the point of view of psychology, it seems that the first love is largely determined by the type of bond that developed during childhood with the first attachment figure (usually the mother).
In turn, the first love will be decisive for the future relationships that the person will have, it is always an inexhaustible source of new experiences from which we learn a lot both from what we want and from what we do not want.
“Love is so short and forgetfulness so long. “-Pablo Neruda-
In the last part, we see Adele shattered by pain and desolation because she suffered the loss of her first great love. Beautiful and heartbreaking is her reunion, a time after the breakup, where Emma emphasizes that he no longer loves her, but feels infinite tenderness for her.
If one returns to the Sternberg Triangle, it is possible to identify this tenderness as the desire for intimacy with no passion and commitment, however, despite Emma’s words, we see how passion is there and remains on both sides. in many relationships that break, where the passion or sexual desire for the other person continues.
When we talk about the first disappointment, we mean the first great loss of love, by which people suffer, become depressed, learn and grow. If we talk about psychological processes, the first loss of love could also be defined as a duel. process and, therefore, there are a number of steps to take before accepting the loss.
The film is an adaptation of Julie Maroh’s comic strip “Blue is the Hottest Color”, developed in the colour range of blues. That’s why, in the film itself, everything is soaked in blue, from Emma’s hair to Adele’s clothes. This color treatment looks a bit like the wonderful “Three Colors” trilogy, especially Blue with Juliette Binoche, where blue means not love, but freedom.