Double Life Film Analysis
The recurring motifs common to these two films.
Leaving Behind
In both the films, the protagonist at a certain point in their life goes through an event where they decide to leave the routine of their life and pursue, out of intuition, something else that is away from their past.
In Double Life, Weronika leaves to visit her aunt in Krakow after telling her father that she doesn’t feel like she’s alone in the world. She leaves her lover and father behind to arrive in Krakow, where she spots her double, Veronique. She faces her end soon after, following which, Veronique starts to feel the loss of someone very close to her. In the mourning, she decides to quit her job as the music teacher and pursues the trail Alexandre has laid out for her out of a sense of …show more content…
In her way of negating herself, after having failed to commit suicide, she decides to get rid of all her belongings and applies all force towards isolating herself or liberating herself from all her previous attachments and memories.
“In Blue, the prison is created both by emotion and memory. Julie probably wants to stop loving her husband because it would be far easier for her to live. That’s why she doesn’t think about him. That’s why she has forgotten...In a way, Julie’s in a static situation. She’s constantly waiting for something, waiting that something will change. She’s extremely neurasenthic - because that’s what she’s decided to be - and the film, in a sense, has to follow her, follow her way of life and her behaviour.”
(Kieslowski on Kieslowski, 1993, Page 215)
“But it appears that you can’t free yourself entirely from everything that’s been. You
Leaving Behind
In both the films, the protagonist at a certain point in their life goes through an event where they decide to leave the routine of their life and pursue, out of intuition, something else that is away from their past.
In Double Life, Weronika leaves to visit her aunt in Krakow after telling her father that she doesn’t feel like she’s alone in the world. She leaves her lover and father behind to arrive in Krakow, where she spots her double, Veronique. She faces her end soon after, following which, Veronique starts to feel the loss of someone very close to her. In the mourning, she decides to quit her job as the music teacher and pursues the trail Alexandre has laid out for her out of a sense of …show more content…
In her way of negating herself, after having failed to commit suicide, she decides to get rid of all her belongings and applies all force towards isolating herself or liberating herself from all her previous attachments and memories.
“In Blue, the prison is created both by emotion and memory. Julie probably wants to stop loving her husband because it would be far easier for her to live. That’s why she doesn’t think about him. That’s why she has forgotten...In a way, Julie’s in a static situation. She’s constantly waiting for something, waiting that something will change. She’s extremely neurasenthic - because that’s what she’s decided to be - and the film, in a sense, has to follow her, follow her way of life and her behaviour.”
(Kieslowski on Kieslowski, 1993, Page 215)
“But it appears that you can’t free yourself entirely from everything that’s been. You