Saw Three Colours: White, the second in the three colors trilogy. This one was about equality. It's less staid than the first one, more satisfying and straightforward in its primary plot, however a little more obscure in how it connects to its color theme of equality.
the film follows Karol, a hairdresser, who opens the film being divorced by his wife. She leaves him without possessions or home, cruelly leaving him on the streets, somehow freezing his bank cards, gloating about winning his property in court, and even threatening to frame him for arson when he tries to come back. She asks him "Do I make you afraid?" He is re-born, all but naked, into the world, re-born by this trauma. The rest of the film shows him slowly climbing out of this hole, becoming his own master once more. The film's ending brings the theme home in a very clear way, but you should see it yourself.
I enjoyed the film. It was more visceral and straightforward than the first one I saw, but it is still a Kieslowski film. He's more into subtlety than histrionics and this film contains a lot of unusual plot points and slow payoffs. The theme of equality is sort of subverted (as I've come to expect!) but it's not layered into the narrative the same way it was with Blue. I don't know. I liked this one okay, it just felt a little thinner than the last one, a little more on the surface. Maybe I'm just missing the depths?
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