There are two places where colors can show their talents. The first is the environment and background, and the second is the number and clothing of the characters.
In the large-scale coloring, the gray and dark shades are highlighted, such as the buildings on both sides of the gray and mottled alleys and the misty factories, while the bright color blocks are mostly limited to the interior of the building. Even if they appear in the exterior, the area is not large. Large, it only serves as an embellishment.
There are two main types of interiors. The first is factory buildings and the second is residential buildings. The pipes in the factory are painted in various bright colors, such as red, yellow and blue, and the walls are also painted with yellow and black patterns at random. The steel pipe armrests in the heroine's home are painted blue, and the bed frame in the hero's hotel room is painted bright red, lying between him and the heroine, like a cordon.
What impressed me the most were the two most representative indoor scenes.
The first is the small red room in the log cabin. A group of people lie down aimlessly in it. The wife sees her husband flirting with other women without saying a word, turning a blind eye. Everyone seems to be lazy and suppressed. . In the end, the wooden house was demolished and thrown into the fire, which is also a metaphor.
The second is the hotel room of the male protagonist. His room can be said to be a palette, which can change various colors. When the female protagonist first came to him, it was white. When the central heroine cried out of her pain, the room became The room turned pink when the heroine woke up from the bed the next morning after the two had sex.
It is worth talking about in clothing.
The heroine's green coat only appears twice, at the beginning and at the end. Green symbolizes hope in the film. For example, the green grass fields in front of the factory are so weak and rare in the film. If the green at the beginning represents the heroine still has hope, then the green at the end represents the heroine and life. The reconciliation has regained the peace of life.
The costumes of the heroine in the middle are mostly black, white, gray and achromatic, blending with the indifferent and gloomy surroundings, reflecting his despair. The heroine’s husband dresses mainly in brown jackets. Brown is a symbol of old and conservative. His life has never been off track. He has never spent much time exploring the heroine’s spiritual world. He lives In the so-called normal world. When the heroine tries to seek comfort from her, she only needs a hug of his love, and all he gives her is sex.
The male protagonist in the film seems to be the only element that hopes to improve the life of the female protagonist, but we can see from his clothes that it is impossible. He cannot be the one who gives him hope. The style of his clothing is medium-sized, and the suit and leather shoes inside the coat seem to be able to enter and exit the office building at any time. The colors are mainly navy blue, gray, and black, which reveals his indifference and rationality. His achromatic dress allows him to unobtrusively blend into the hopeless environment around him. He is dissatisfied with the real life, so he wanders around, but in the end he finds that he is no different from six years ago, and life is back again. When he arrived at the origin, he met the heroine. He couldn't help saying that he was greedy for his beauty, but he might also recognize that the heroine could not compromise with the place of life. It can be seen from the sympathy and curiosity in his eyes, but he is powerless and unwilling. Save her, at this point, she is no different from his husband. He just wants to possess her.
In the end, the heroine wore her green coat again, holding the son who had hurt her, and walking among the smoke billowing machine monsters. There was only peace in her eyes, and she had compromised with her life.
The bird knew that the yellow smoke in the chimney was poisonous, so it didn't fly there.
If a person knows that hopeless pursuit is painful, he won't let himself think about it again.
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