Physically uncomfortable colors

Karson 2022-09-14 22:50:31

From the name, it is known that it is a Cthulhu-themed film. This film can be said to have portrayed the color of the stars very well. I personally think that the whole film is very good, full of classic elements in Cthulhu's novels. Cage's acting skills don't need to be talked about. His handling of emotional ups and downs should not be matched by a few in Hollywood, and the rest of the actors are also in place.

At the beginning of the movie, the victims (human and animals) are very skillfully passed through the scene, and they implicitly show their weird characters and hidden contradictions in the family, which lays a good foundation for the later character conflict; at the same time, from the perspective of the characters Full of space, all the room scenes that will be used in the whole play are unfolded.

The graphic symbols of "triangle" and double "door" appear in a large number of shots. The triangular window in the middle partition of the attic is a symbol of the unity of mother and Jack; while the two square doors in the living room and kitchen accompany Cage The abruptness of each stage of the mind, the unsettling and depressing integration of these graphics into the scene, is what I think is the biggest highlight.

If you understand the setting of star color, you will know that it is very difficult to directly present the concept of star color in the figurative art of movies, but the charm of star color is that it is not a visual thing, but a A fear that eats away at your imagination, the film's main length is faithful to the setting depicting the alienation of the star's radioactivity (such as the accelerated ripening of unpalatable fruit), thereby presenting an alternative obscure fear.

A lot of color rendering is used in the film. In order to highlight this visual pollution and physiologically uncomfortable color, a lot of harsh high-frequency humming is used. The effect is actually good, anyway, I am happy.

For me, some of the downfalls are that the eldest son went down the well to die, which is so stupid, and many things about the daughter are not clear (the Necronomicon is translated???), other than that, this movie It suits my taste very much, probably with Cage's extra points. Although he has received too many bad movies now, I always think that Cage has this acting skill and can't turn around.

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Color Out of Space quotes

  • [first lines]

    Ward: West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glimpse of sunlight. When I went into the hills and vales to survey for the new reservoir, they told me the place was evil. They told me this in Arkham, and because that is a very old town, full of witch legends, I thought the evil must be something which grandams had whispered to children through centuries. Then I saw the dark westward tangle of glens and slopes for myself and ceased to wonder at anything besides its own elder mystery.

  • [last lines]

    Ward: I hope the dammed water that covers this place will be very deep. But even then I will never drink it. There are only a few of us that remember the strange days now. What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood by human science. It was just a color out of space, a messenger from realms whose existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs that it throws open before our frenzied eyes.