Colors Representing Horror, Featuring Mythological Approach
Black is beauty, and I know that many of us here found the color black attractive. In fashion it is one of the major color to use in order to enhance someone's beauty and fit body. Personally, I love black, it's a kind of neat color in many aspects. On the other hand, black is the most common color in horror.
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Recently, I watched the movie Orphan. For those who haven't watched it, this it is about the protagonist(Esther) which is the orphan in the story.
The family Coleman symbolizes the "special world" that the protagonist trying to enter. In the beginning of the movie, Esther is an orphan trying to show good characteristics in order to get the sympathy and love of the whole family. When she finally achieved to be part of the family, she slowly making her real plans using her previous experiences, added with her disorder giving her more confidence to kill, and too much temper that she's trying to hide. Through this, she was able to successfully make her plans, but at the end of the story she get was she truly deserved.
I can relate this movie to a Mythological approach, and when we say Mythological Approach this is not only focusing about gods and/or goddesses, but those elements that create the holistic of the story or movie. Since there's a lot of elements, I will only focus to those colors, which also represents horror.
In Mythological Approach we can have the color black and gray. Black means chaos, mystery, death and melancholy in the story. The color that the protagonist likes to wear when she started to show her real identity, the dress, choker and bracelet. if you observed, this is the cinematic color of the movie the whole time. While the other one is Gray, means passionless. In the story, Esther revealed her identity of being passionless when she killed a bird in which Danny(son of the Coleman couple) targeted. This color can be seen throughout the whole cinematic color of the movie too.
Another story, Filipino animated series, which I already shared in my previous article is the Trese by Budjette Tan.
This a story about a lady named Alexandra who came from a family that is expert in dealing with supernatural entities. A story which involves a mythology approach as it shows the Philippines' well known folk creatures, including white lady, santelmo, kapre and aswang. Aside from this, the protagonist herself symbolizes history, beliefs and religious aspects of Filipinos, including common archetypes in a myth that can be seen while Alexandra is investigating different cases from different entities.
In here, we also have the color black, can be seen in the clothes that Alexandra is wearing, and even the mood of the whole series. Another color is the red, this is one of the main color that can be seen in the series, which represents blood and sacrifices. Besides, the whole story shows Mythological Approach obviously, specifically Philippine Mythology.
Why I shared this one is that, it a kind of interesting and challenging to critique a story, novel, movie or any piece of work, which catch people's interest. There's a lot of approaches, but since I am more into mythology, then I got an idea to share it here. I observed that some writers here, got an idea on there work based on the books or movies that they have watch, and it is a good way to share what are your critiques to a particular piece, to get into a more deeper understanding.
If reading is your love, I recommend you to make your own critique. You can start with the color, as for me it is so basic. We already have the black, gray and red; you can add more based on your interpretation and previous knowledge.
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April 13, 2022
-Ling
Yang trese diko natapos yan ee haha. Ang dami nagasabi maganda daw yan.