What happens to Adele and Emma makes you want no one else to feel embarrassed about who they love.Īdele’s peers affect how she feels about herself and her relationship with Emma. In real life, there are gays and lesbians that are made to feel that they don’t belong.
Because of how her school friends made her feel, she has such a hard time being able to accept herself. This can be connected back to Adele’s school years when her friends bullied her. Even though years have passed in the film, Adele is still ashamed to be a lesbian. It is implied that she has not told them she is with a woman because she is embarrassed. It leads up to this when a coworker brings up that she never goes out with them and we find out she makes excuses that she has to be with her family.
Society might have become more accepting of gays and lesbians, but it stills acts very harshly toward people who do not stick to male-female gender roles or do not dress the way their sex is “supposed to” dress.Īnother important point in the movie is when Adele ends up sleeping with a man that she works with. All of Adele’s supposed friends harassed her just because she walked away with someone that looked like what they thought a lesbian looked like. Here is the gender theme, where people assume that just because a girl does not dress completely feminine that they are a lesbian and use the negative word “dyke.” Not only is that a stereotype, but it is a negative one. They immediately call Emma a dyke and then call Adele a lesbian for hanging out with her. The next incident with Adele’s friends is when they attack her about Emma meeting her at school. The contrast is drastic they literally go from pushing her onto a guy to screaming at her in front of everyone about being a lesbian and screaming “you’ll never get my pussy.” Teenagers have strange rules about what they think their social world should be like, which makes it so much harder for people who feel they do not fit in. It is interesting to see her friends pressure her to sleep with a guy and then become disgusted at the possibility of her being attracted to a girl. This is something that teenagers deal with all the time: peer pressure to be sexually active. The behavior of her peers clearly takes a toll on her and makes her feel abnormal, like she is supposed to be feeling the way they do. Adele is obviously different from them she is more reserved. The conversation is actually very vulgar, and there does not seem to be any sign of any of Adele’s friends wanting an actual relationship. It is clear that there is peer pressure to be sleeping with someone… of the opposite sex. There are themes of gender and being comfortable with yourself, which are not only important to the LGTBQ community, but to everyone.įrom the very start of the movie Adele’s friends are talking about sex.
However, this film is even more than a tribute to that community. And of course, it means something to the LGTBQ community around the world. As we know, same-sex marriage became legal in France last year, so this film is important to the gay and lesbian community in France. This story has so much passion in it, and it comes from the writing, the actors, and the direction of Abdellatif Kechiche. When I first watched Blue is the Warmest Color (French), I was astounded by this unique love story and the superb performances by Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux. Gender and Sexual Identity in Blue is the Warmest Color