“The theme of Red is the conditional mood - what would have happened if the judge had been born forty years later. Everything that happens to Auguste happened to the judge although, perhaps, slightly differently…But the essential question the film asks is: Is it possible to repair a mistake which was committed somewhere high above? Somebody brought someone to life at the wrong moment. Valentine should have been called to life forty years earlier or the judge forty years later. These people would probably have been very happy together. They probably suit each other very well. That’s the theory of the two halves of an apple. If you cut one apple in half and cut another identical one, the half of the one apple will never fit with the half of the other. You have to put together the halves of the same apple to make the apple whole. The whole apple is comprised of a matching pair and it’s the same with people. The question is: Has a mistake been committed somewhere? And if it has then is there anybody in a position to rectify it?”
Krzysztof Kieslowski, essentially explaining how RED informed / anticipated FRINGE.*
(note: unfortunately, the footnote to which that asterisk leads is in an alternate universe. bummer.)
