The Big Blue by Luc Besson, the 29-year-old
French writer/director
Main characters:
Joanna Cross (Rosanna Arquette) Jacques Mayol
(Jean-Marc Barr) Enzo Molinari ( Jean Reno)
Trying to describe the plot of "
The Big Blue"
would be like trying to describe the plot of
Picasso's paintings. It is a poetic, deeply
philosophical and very zen picture. Nothing
of factual substance ever happens, but the deep,
complex, human issues such as Love, Freedom,
Sacrifice, Commitment and Ego are always present,
although never mentioned. Big Blue is bright
and amazing painting, spoiled only in the beginning
by some prat mentioning "supernatural powers".
Luckily this fatal flow is not followed later
in the film, call it coincidence or what have
you. Jacques is a man who never knew anything
but freedom. Joanna Cross is a woman who never
knew anything but rut and 9 till 5 slavery.
Enzo is a typical bully who bullies people because
he has so much love, passion and energy in him,
and does not quite know what to do with it.
Those three people just interact, their interaction
is the only plot in the film. Enzo loves his
Ego, loves bulling Jacques in fatherly manner
and needs Jacques to feed Enzo's ego hunger.
Joanna falls in love with Jacques, is prepared
to give up all she has for him and already has
given up her own dignity and values. Jacques
is the central character of all this interactions.
He just smiles. He just smiles. He is very good
in smiling. That fuels Enzo's ego hunger, that
drives Joanna to the point of mental breakdown.
Jacques is not super-human either. He does feel
the growing pressure and that his smiling and
being kind is creating accumulating tension.
At the end, in a way, they all resolve the growing
tension in the way which is very natural to
them.
"The Big Blue" is like that. It is a single
painting with movement in it. It is kind of
movie one would start watching thinking "Gosh....
not my type of movie, I don't believe I am watching
this rubbish!". But at the end of the film one
feels deeply touched. It is movie without "orgasm",
without high point, without end or beginning.
Jacques' smile seems to be imprinted in my brain
forever. Enzo makes one angry but then one finds
some love and compassion towards him. Joanne,
well, she is easy target to fall in love, that's
for sure! It is a human movie about humanity,
about choices we have and why they never work
out. It is about obvious, basic facts we all
know, but expressed in very deep, beautiful
and picturesque fashion. Enough....
!Spoilers!
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| Enzo dies while trying to prove that
he is the best. Joanna gets pregnant with
Jacques, leaves her work and her life
to live with him. And Jacques himself?
Well... I am not sure entirely... I think
he manages to follow his freedom without
giving up his love.... |
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| End of Spoilers |
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