Me And All We Know And Me Analysis

Review of Me and You and Everyone We Know
Miranda July’s independent movie Me and You and Everyone We Know is very cute and a little bit bizarrely funny, which mainly observes of how modern people struggle to connect with each other in an isolating world. Through the usage of film techniques such color and the camera distances and angles, views get a better understanding of how the central character Christine, a lonely artist who operates a cab service for the elderly, falls in love and holds hands together with a department-store shoe salesman Richard，who is newly separated from his wife and trying to make his apartment feel like home to his sons, Peter and Robby.
The colors used in the movie stand out and effectively help views get a sense of
"Women in Western cultures who want to emphasize their sexual appeal have long been known to use red to draw attention to themselves"(67, Phillips). However, Richard is introduced by the colors that are totally drained of intensity such as his brown T-shirt and the drab decoration of his living apartment. On the contrary, the outside sky of this apartment is always blue, a cool and calm tone, which tend to be associated with [relaxation]"(68, Phillips). The director strongly enhances Richard’s constraint of life through an apparent color contrast between his apartment and this bright sky. Therefore, views have a better sense of why Richard chooses an irrational method to release all his depression. The eye-level shot of this scene is especially attractive and nervous: Richard ends up lighting his hand on fire, and the warm colors almost occupy the frame. The colors [orange and yellow] [tend] to be thought of as hot, dangerous, lively, and assertive"(67, Phillips), which conveys to views that his strong desire for more attention and communication from his children. The alternately appearance of the deep focus of Christine and Richard