Metaforik Bir Deneyim Olarak ‘Ölümden Uyanmak’: Kieślowski’nin ‘Mavi’si
‘Waking Up From Death’ As A Metaphorical Experience: Kieślowski’s ‘Blue’

Summary/Abstract: Kieślowski’s Three Colours: Blue (1993) is the first film of the director’s trilogy relying upon the colors of the French flag. The film narrates the story of Julie who loses her family after a traffic accident and her attempts to construct herself a new life. So far, the articles written on the subject of the film concentrate too densely on the usage of the blue color as a symbol of freedom for Julie and the trauma and the mourning that she experiences as the protagonist of the film. This article discusses that Kieślowski’s portraiture of mourning is related neither with the artificial usage of colour in the film nor with sharing Julie’s innermost personality. In addition, the usage of the blue color is thought to have a closer relationship with Julie’s condition and is rather related with a chromatic and semiotic experience of language and what Deleuze and Guattari define as a series of ‘becoming’s. As a result, it wil be defended that the usage of blue does not have a fixed meaning as a representation of the principle of freedom, mourning or sadness as the symbolized themes of the film but rather with the fact of Julie’s attempt to create a materialist language with a ryhthm and a ‘becoming’ attached to that language, after the traumatic accident experienced.

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