“My lips said hello my friend, but my heart said- Hello, my future”
A monochrome montage on matters of the humane, beating heart? Yes please! An evocative piece of indie cinema, Blue Jay spins an emotional yarn on the tale of the timeless, star-crossed lovers. At the core of the narrative, lies the central idea that if two former flames met one fine day, out of the blue, sparks would definitely transpire. But to what possible extent?
Places make the people, they say. Jim and Amanda take a trip down nostalgia avenue, which sparks a muted introspection of their present lives. Realisation gradually seeps in over beer and jellybeans, that the love, that defined them, lives on, somewhere, simmering beneath. As their effervescent personalities collide once again, under the blanket of waning smiles, a staccato of pure, unspoken poetry is set in motion, perfectly in tune with the silences of the soul.
Picture Credit: Duplass Brothers Productions
Blue Jay dazzles with lush, vibrant strokes across its monochrome palette, emblematic of the hollowness plaguing the two protagonists. Amanda enters Jim’s life as a key to that portal, like a brush with the colourful canvas of one’s soul - the yesteryears where love fought, won and reigned every single day.
The embers of youth, if left simmering, can irrevocably incinerate the pains of adulthood. Sometimes, letting go is perhaps never an option, when holding on, is all the heart has ever known. The world, as we know it, may herald and honour the Romeos and the Juliets, but this one is for all the Jims and Amandas out there, rooted in reality, yet triumphantly defined, by the phantasmagoria of possibility.