In Krzysztov Keislowski's film Blue, the color "blue" becomes associated, not only with immense grief and tragedy, but a nostalgic longing for childhood, happiness and innocence. After main character loses both her husband and child in a tragic automobile accident in which she survives, she grieves by running away from her old life and trying to forget her past self, as well as what she lost. As if a symbol of her grief haunting her and not letting her move on, she finds a blue lollipop in her bag that she was meant to give to her young daughter before she died. She spends no time unwrapping and immediately eating the lollipop, in an aggressive and unusual manner. As Mavor, who analytically comments on aspects of the movie, points out, it is symbolic of an attempt made by Julie to desperately hold on to any sort of Anna, her daughter. In this case, she is literally eating her daughter, or the lollipop that represented her life, childhood, and contribution to the happiness in Julie's life. The lollipop is also blue, which is visually associated with the accident and Anna, making it a continuously used motif for grief and longing in the movie. The shade of blue in the movie is also significant, as the lollipop is a baby blue, rather than an ultramarine or harsher blue. The childlike quality of the blue is one that we often associate with newborn children: baby blue for boys and baby pink for girls. The addition of the word "baby" in front of the color gives the visual impression that the color is lighter on the eyes, more pastel and more innocent, childish looking. By assocating the sense taste with the tragedy experienced by Julie in the movie, Kieslowksi creates a poignant scene in which a mother tries to consume her grief and dead daughter within herself.
