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The film "D´Adèle's Life" or "Blue is the warmest color" is based on the novel "La vie de Marianne" by Pierre Marivaux, a 17th-century novelist.

The film tells the story of a young working-class woman, Adele, and her involvement with Emma, ​​an aristocrat who lives for the defense of LGBT rights and the need to affirm her values ​​through her art, painting.

It also portrays the discovery of sexuality, the acceptance of homosexuality and bisexuality, as well as the struggle of classes and values ​​that impose themselves on the sense of mission and passion for the same ideals, and although these are apparently the most relevant themes in the film, it is the relationship human founding the whole plot.

The film reflects how the connection and meaning of life are not always sufficient to maintain a loving relationship, how external factors and personalities can alter the entire course of the relationship, how differences can impede communication, trust, and complicity.

Adele assumes her personality alongside Emma, ​​but her personality is dual, her sense of life oscillates like the currents of a river, and she does not know where she is going, because she goes on the adventure like the madman, the greatest arcane, who is bold he goes on the adventure and needs the faithful friendship of those who accompany him as support.

Adele grows up and becomes a teacher, although in essence she is a writer and she does this for Emma, ​​to support and accompany her abdicating her professional and personal and loving desires, since she decides to be faithful to Emma, ​​contrary to the constant flow that leads her to fall in love with the world, with life and with others.

Adele's dual personality leads Emma to be jealous and to commit herself more and more to her professional goals at the expense of the relationship that begins to fall apart.

Emma is the false revolutionary because if she defies the canons through her painting, she maintains a set of fixed or cardinal values ​​that bind her and prevent her from accepting Adele's need for permanent change, without realizing all the sacrifices she makes to fit in. in your rigid and jealous world.

The personalities fall in love, but the barriers are too strong and even if the moments remain, Adele fades with her surrender and contradictions, until she realizes that she has lost herself, the film ends when she stops blaming herself for her inability of fixing and accepting her dual nature of permanent transformation and realizing that Emma had never made the slightest effort, nor would she have to, because just by connecting the essence and the root, one can find the strength and essence of each one.

We can have different readings because the film is rich in layers, but personally, I consider that the plot focuses precisely on the true acceptance of the differences and the extent to which this ideal is unattainable because it forces the complete transformation that not everyone wants to embrace.

Only someone who has mutability within them can understand Adele, only those with definite goals can perceive Emma, ​​only those with magnitude can know and perceive both and understand why the relationship was doomed at first sight.