The companion film to its controversial predecessor, I Am Curious (Blue) is described in the Grove Press Catalog as being even more powerful and unrelentingly frank in its portrayal of contemporary culture. Equally erotic, equally political, (Blue) is nevertheless an entirely different work. In Film Quarterly, Clyde B. Smith wrote, “(Yellow) is about class structure, nonviolence, and value systems. (Blue) is about relations between people, religion, the prison system, and sex.”