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Ask Movie Slate — Episode 165

Yes, there really is a movie called Blue and it's literally one hour and ten minutes of just one sheet of blue color, with narration, sound effects, and not a single moving picture.

It's also pretty surprising.

I'm not going to deny that this is the snootiest and most pretentious-looking update I've done for this blog. It's also the fastest (I broke the record from "They Live!"). It took me more to figure out what shade of blue I had to use than drawing Movie Slate in front of it. But there's a reason to why I am reviewing this movie, and why I am uploading it on a Tuesday instead of the usual Thursday.

I lost my uncle to AIDS when I was five, and what little I got to know of him left a powerful impression on me. He was a fantastic guy, a bit too crazy when it comes to living, and was pretty brilliant at his job (he was an architect). The 1st of December is the World AIDS Day, and it made sense to me to bring to the attention of all my followers one of the movies that did the best to try and explain what's it like to live with this terrible disease. Not out of pity, but out of wanting to be understood. If you want to know more about the movie, its meanings, and other themes, check Brows Held High's review of it here. He does make really good points, and it's genuinely entertaining. He has influenced the way I do Movie Slate in many ways.

Let me know what you think in the comments! I hope you all enjoy it!

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Seriously though, there really is a movie called Blue.

And it’s just one single frame, solid blue, with a voice over that talks about other shades of blue, other colors, life, death, and many other subjects. But it also talks about how the director of this film, Derek Jarman, was dying of AIDS when he made it. His retinas were detaching, and he was going blind, save for a single color. Guess what color was the only one he was able to see.

Watch this movie, if only out of respect for Mr. Jarman and all the people who have lost the battle to that terrible disease. I know I’m going to watch it again.

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Posted previously at: 2015-12-01T20:22:23 | Posted previously by: Mildgyth