Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue – The Multidimensionality of Loss and the Inner World A family drives down the highway. A child watches the lights reflecting in the rear window. A dirt road, mist. A boy tosses a kendama by the roadside. Suddenly — a crash. What is loss? It is final. In this essay, I examine Blue , the first film in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy. I focus on the film’s thematic core: loss and the violently shifting emotional landscapes it creates—those places where words fail, collapse, and disintegrate. I also reflect on the film’s rhythm and visual language as part of a broader thematic whole. In addition, I reference certain key elements that contribute significantly to the film’s structure and meaning. In the opening scenes of Blue , Kieslowski employs a deliberately fragmentary visual style: labored breathing, blurred focus, and extreme close-ups—of a hand, of an eye reflecting the doctor’s face. This fragmentation mi...