The Trilogy of Colors by Krzysztof Kieslowski: a Postmodern Approximation

Abstract

From the relations between Cinema, Political Science and Law, discursive fields  of interpretative activity could be set; whose main characteristic is the search for interdisciplinary relations. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trilogy of Colors: Blue (Freedom, 1993), White (Equality, 1994) and Red (Fraternity 1994), is the analytical route to establish this connection. Studying Kieslowski means understanding its aesthetic and social diversity in a narrative and political context in which Arts and Social Sciences are lured by new views of epistemic deepening, such is the case of the postmodern debate. This paper aims to establish such link: in his narrative, Kiesloswski shares the same concern of Philosophy and Sociology: the disappointment at the unfulfilled promises of modernity, the imposition of ideological models of power, and the strengthening of a post-capitalist economic system which purpose is the domination of all the rational and emotional interactions.