The trailer and the few shorts clips of the film that did rounds on social media since its early days of release appealed to me in every way. I had been meaning to watch “Blue is the Warmest Colour” for the longest time. It is out and out aestheticised, which makes it difficult to question ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’s problematics.Īlso read: Film Review: Unfreedom - Family, Violence And The Male Gaze
“Blue is the Warmest Colour” is one such film. The male gaze here as I said is not overwhelming or outrightly predatory, but it is there, in varying degrees of intrusion. Its presence is difficult to pick on but you just have the sense of it at the back of your head. The male gaze in some films may not be outrightly predatory and offensive. “Blue is the Warmest Colour” is one such film. The male gaze often objectifies the female entity where they are sometimes unnecessarily sexualised or incorrectly depicted or simply relegated to the margins.īut the male gaze in some films may not be outrightly predatory and offensive. The male gaze basically scrutinises how women are looked at, in an artistic space created by a man. This oft-quoted line of John Berger from his book “Ways of Seeing” states the crux of the idea of “male gaze”.