The following are some analysis and details about the use of color in the film (the text in the picture contains spoilers, please read it after watching the film )
The picture of the movie is rich in color, and the layout of each scene is very careful, which is different from the low saturation and retro gray tone of many British supernatural movies. The whole movie uses a lot of red, yellow and green three colors, all processed into A hyper-saturated, disturbing color pattern with red for warning, yellow-green for suffocating eerie, and green for poisonous insidiousness.
Cameron lived in a dilapidated container house. When Goodman visited him, it was always cold outside. Cameron was always in a state of illness. This role that led the plot symbolized Goodman's heart. The situation, gloomy, lonely and weak, on the stairs outside the house, there are three orangutans who don't look, don't listen, "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil", which is Goodman's cowardly and uncontested character A portrait, and a dwarf (sarcastically) reading a book in sunglasses.
The protagonists of the three events correspond to the three periods of Goodman's life
Meeting the first man, after they sat down, there was a "no smoking" prompt on the table, the night watchman directly ignored and started smoking, all kinds of impatience in the words, reinforcing the character's rude and direct, real-world Goodman This period has lost patience (towards suicide), and the restaurant has a yellow-green hue, an eerie color, like the eerie encounter of the Night Watch in the hospital at night. In addition, this place is obviously a restaurant, except for these two people, no one is there from beginning to end, which is abnormal, and it has begun to suggest that this place may not be the real world.
late night, lots of red
Talking to the priest in the church, the priest said that "modern people are concerned about things other than their own interests, and it has become outdated" "Have a mental burden? We are talking about a man now", all describing Goodman who satirizes the real world, In the end, the official said to him that he cared more about his family's affairs to get better and left, just like the religious belief in reality, it didn't help him at all (the title says that his father's religion ruined their family).
The second boy's house, with an abrupt blood-red door and a gloomy color warning, the people inside were careful not to open the door at will, and the door was fully locked after entering the room, which echoed the boy's heart, namely Goodman The world, with parents in the house totally ignoring boys and strangers from outside, was the family situation in Goodman's childhood. Goodman's word for a hot room is "boiling" rather than the commonly used "hot", which means more inner suffering.
After the third priddle sighed and was depressed, the interior of the bright mansion was dark and dark, and most of the colors were black and dark gray, which matched the mood of the characters.
The children's room was the only room that gave him hope, so there were plenty of bright white objects, bright floor-to-ceiling windows, and calm weather (it was snowing outside shortly before the priddle entered the room).
At night, it turns red, yellow and green again
And finally this warning-colored top, reminding the audience of the boy's words and deeds and his danger
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