Echo Already in the title of the film we see the leading color palette of the picture: white, blue and red. Each of these colors appears in almost every scene. Whether it is pre-sunset or pre-dawn blue of the sky, the clothes of the heroes, sunglasses, the name of the tape they remove (" Her blue eyes, according to the color of the heroine's eyes). The red dress Julia is given in the hospital stands in stark contrast to the dazzlingly white hospital room. The recording room is lit in blood-red shades. Blue, often bordering on gray, creates not the most pleasant impression.
Artificial studio light is almost not used in this film, or simulated its absence. The rooms seem to be illuminated only by windows, from which only white light pours, not always bright. The camera looks like it's secretly filming. Averbach intentionally does not “shoot beautifully”, as if he does not want to have anything to do with the world of filmmaking.
In the hospital everything is white: walls, hospital gown, bed linen. The heroine becomes almost part of the interior. At the film studio, she is constantly in the twilight, merges with the walls. Thus, it is everywhere invisible. In the hospital, she is an ordinary patient, and in the movies can do without her. When Julia appears in the studio, few people pay attention to her. Her film can’t end, not because of illness, but because of... For what? All members of the film crew are fussy and do not really listen to each other, but this is a normal workflow. Director, actors, screenwriter, composer periodically say smart things, criticize each other’s work, which once again proves their reasonableness. But, unfortunately, they are incompetent, despite all their efforts and hard work.
The refrain is constant offers to drink tea, coffee, automatic greetings and goodbyes, endless takes of the film process. Repeated mirror surfaces appear. Julia meets her understudy, exactly like her. The phrase “second grade” is repeated many times. Thanks to all the above, the motive of secondaryness, doubleness plays. The copy becomes equal to the original, replaces it.
Life goes on as if nothing had happened. Julia left behind nothing but her role and voice. Unfilmed scenes are shot with a double, another person finishes the voiceover, and there are a lot of people who want to be on the screen. As if nothing had happened.
In the bustle of the filming process, there was the meaning and joy of the heroes of the “Voice”. Cinema is also an illusion. So in the desire of authors to engage in art there is self-deception, giving, although perhaps false, but still the meaning of existence, motivation for activity. Moving for movement.