I Am Curious (Yellow)

Buy This Item I Am Curious (Yellow) by Criterion Collection, The  Available from Amazon  $24.99  on 11-28-2008     I love this movie! Lena tries hard to be a politically correct person for the 60's by protesting and following Martin Luther King's non-violence approach, but her political life can't keep pace with her sexual life, no matter how hard she tries. The complexities of sex destroy her political convictions, and the politics of sex rules over all, including the relationship of director to stars, as the lines between filmic narrative and film making process are constantly blurred. It's funny, it's brutal, it's beautifully shot. The U.S. Supreme Court had the film conviscated on its arrival, but I think it was more because of the film's political agenda and its condemnation of the US involvement in Vietnam. If you're looking for titillation and graphic sex, this in not the film for you. If you're looking for an intellegent and engaging political film that uses sex as it's metaphor, then you've hit the jackpot. Reader Reviews This film, I am Curious (Yellow) takes place in Stockholm during the Vietnam War . Historically it is rather accurate and unbaised . The major theme surrounding this film is that of boundaries ; those created and those imposed . The father is a framer , meaning that his specialty was building and maintaining frames (for pieces of art) . This theme is so clear when one analizes the dynamics of the relationships she keeps throughout the film notably the father-daughter relationship . He gave her the freedom of choosing her medium , the variables of her life , as if she herself were an artist . Yet he absolutely dictates the boundaries of that freedom , confindes her to his restrictions . The girl is living in a tiny bedroom , almost as a social pariah , yet she is very popular and social , albeit among the men . In this instance , her relationship with men is the constant , while her promiscuity remains her variable . The director of this film also blurs the lines of reality ... after half of the movie was over , it switched to a documentary-like film . My best explination is that the director also wanted to live out the life of his characters and relinquish all control to them via his own camera lens .

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