When I was just beginning my creative career, I sported the perfect messy, bed hair with an inch thick, blood-red streak of color along the side my face. I’d show you a picture, but at the moment, I can’t locate the mug shot that would implicate me. I took it not as punk or goth, but just simply a way of expressing my non-conformism.Red depending to the eye of the beholder could mean love, anger, courage, fire, or passion, to name a few. A number of years ago, I realized red clothes generally looked good on me and so I started wearing more of them. It may be too loud for the "sweater set-wearing" crowd, but I’ve never been one for too much gray. Gray literally, grays my skin out. In fact, I always tell people this…it’s not easy being in the gray. What I mean by being in the gray area is being right smack in the middle of not knowing whether you're happy or sad, but feeling listless just the same, or quite simply just plateauing. It’s a very scary place to be. At least when all hell is breaking loose and you’re aware of this, however bad, you still know enough about what’s going on to try to repair it. With gray, you just don’t know and therefore, you’re just very fearful and frustrated. You're downright paralyzed. Deciding to move out of this safe zone or non-participation in life is the only way to start moving and growing. It might get a bit more complicated and so you must approach this with the utmost commitment.
Remember the movie RED?
It’s the third installment to the very ingenious and quite literally very colorful, "Trois Couleurs" by Krzysztof Kieslowski (the first two were named, "Blue" and "White"). RED follows the character, Valentine as her life crosses paths with several characters who each have their own tumultuous struggles. The film ends with ultimately redemption and the message of second chances. Watch this movie for the first time, or watch it again for the nth time. It’s a good way to renew our commitment to a meaningful, vibrant life.Time to put some color back in our lives and into our cheeks.
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I have never watched the movie Red but I tempted to buy it when I was browsing through movies in the shop the other day. It's in a series of 3 right? Red, White and Blue. Which one is the best? Or it's worth to get all 3 of them??
Btw...you really look good with vibrant color's clothing (I remember your red, orange, green...)!!! For myself, I think the black/grayish colors look better on me..kekekee
Hi Van, Rouge, Blanc, Bleu, which one you like the most?
My favorite is RED. I would just rent all of them first rather than buying.
No Netflix in Hong Kong :(
Ms. Mary Mack, how did you get to be such an old, wise soul? Red is my favorite of the French film trilogy and sits on my shelf. Another film favorite of mine is Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud.
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