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In If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Digital Storytelling, Patti Bellantoni calls Blue "The Detached Color." "Blue can be a tranquil pond or a soft blanket of sadness," she writes (81). It can be  "Powerless, Cerebral, and Warm" or "Melancholy, Cold, and Passive."

In Paris, Texas, melancholy is perhaps the dominant emotion. Travis's melancholic wandering through the desert-- from which he emerges him mute and amnesic-- is framed by an expansive blue sky. He and Walt road trip back to Los Angeles in a blue car which disappears into that same sky. Later, in the artificial light as he first re-encounters Jane, the deep, blue glow which surrounds him represents Travis's powerlessness and his deep sense of loss. 

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