They are treated at a clinic, and then go their separate ways. Lena returns home, destroys her room, and goes to the car showroom where Bill works to tell him she has scabies. She apologizes to him for not being strong enough to practice nonviolence.
#Color me yellow and call me stupid drivers#
She also dreams of being taunted by passing drivers as she cycles down a road, until finally Martin Luther King Jr. Lena has strange dreams, in which she ties two teams of soccer players – she notes that they number 23 – to a tree, shoots Bill and cuts his penis off. Lena confronts Bill about Marie, and finds out about another of his lovers, Madeleine. She greets him with a shotgun, but they soon make love. Bill soon comes looking for her in his new car. Alone in a cabin in the woods, she attempts an ascetic life-style, meditating, studying nonviolence and practicing yoga. Lena is furious that Bill has not been open with her, and goes to the country on a bicycle holiday. They begin a love affair, but Lena soon finds out from her father that Bill has another woman, Marie, and a young daughter. Through her father Lena meets the slick Bill (Börje in the original Swedish), who works at a menswear shop and voted for the Rightist Party. Lena's relationship with her father, who briefly went to Spain to fight Franco as part of the International Brigades, is problematic, and she is distressed by the fact that he returned from Spain for unknown reasons after only a short period. She and her friends also picket embassies and travel agencies. She walks around Stockholm and interviews people about social classes in society, conscientious objection, gender equality, and the morality of vacationing in Franco's Spain. The walls are covered with pictures of concentration camps and a portrait of Francisco Franco, reminders of the crimes being perpetrated against humanity.
#Color me yellow and call me stupid full#
Her little room is filled with books, papers, and boxes full of clippings on topics such as "religion" and "men", and files on each of the 23 men with whom she has had sex. Nyman's character, also named Lena, lives with her father in a small apartment in Stockholm and is driven by a burning passion for social justice and a need to understand the world, people and relationships. Plot ĭirector Vilgot Sjöman plans to make a social film starring his lover (played by Lena Nyman), a young theatre student who has a strong interest in social issues. It is a companion film to 1968's I Am Curious (Blue) the two were initially intended to be one 3 + 1⁄ 2 hour film. I Am Curious (Yellow) ( Swedish: Jag är nyfiken – en film i gult, meaning "I Am Curious: A Film in Yellow") is a 1967 Swedish erotic drama film written and directed by Vilgot Sjöman, starring Sjöman and Lena Nyman.
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