Vicky Christina Barcelona

An amazing, amazing movie. With its full rich palate of colors, flavours, and music, this movie presents a full experience in romantic intrigue. This is not your classic romance movie, it has quite a different charm. Vicky Christina Barcelona is the Hamlet of romance. Everyone ends up unhappy. But this is definitely not a dark or depressing movie in anyway. Comedy and great cinematography brighten this movie and bestow it with entirely different meaning.
The film can be categorized as an excercize in conflicting ideas, but that only adds to the genius of the film. It seems to be comparing and contrasting 3 main ideas: romance (love), education/work, and art. It seems to be showing us that artists are well educated, very intellectual people who are looking to experience and define love. This film shows us different senarios of romance and romantics, some of which end up not being so romantic, others being far too romantic. Each of the characters/romances have their happy period and then reality and real life sets in.
Overall, this film was mean to just be a great piece of art. This is obvious as the entire movie is based on and surrounded by art influence and culture. Also, the exposure is noticably warm, and the colors are more vivd as they are obviously saturated. The setting of Barcelona and use of the spanish language also greatly help to set the stage and draw the mood of art and romance. The musical score at times adds to the drama but is always right on target, setting that awkwardly comedic but yet romantic and artful mood that never fails to grip your interest.
I loved this movie not just becuase of its use of art, but it was also very entertaining. The creator of this film seems to be saying that you can find love or romance but rarely can you find them together. If you are lucky to find both they are fleeting and an unstable mixture. Although I don't agree with that view point, I love the way it was expressed in this movie and therefore enjoyed it.