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I was particularly impressed with the art direction, Dracoon's on to something when he asks what your favorite color is. The fact is the movie's art direction has a lot to do with the underlying emotions of every perspective that the story was told in.

When it is told in Nameless' perspective, there is a lot of yellow, a lot of red, and a lot of orange, all colors that represent heat and anger and craziness. Not only does that lead one to realize that his story is false, but it also is very indicative of the characters and the emotions felt by then when the story is told from his perspective.

When the story is told from the King's perspective, there are many blues, greens, teals. These are sad colors. The king's story is filled with much more sadness than Nameless's story, and it definitely shows in the colors. However, I took issue with the colors and their uses.

The colors made the entire film extremely predictable. When one saw Snow and Broken Sword dressed in red, one could tell that there was a story of jealousy at work. It was obvious. When they were dressed in blue, there was more obviousity, the sadness that they both felt showed that one of them would die and the other would be sad, it's very easy to see that.

However, what I thought really made the movie shine was the third perspective. The one where everyone was dressed in white. White represents purity, there is total truth to the story, the problems of the star-crossed lovers are apparent, but there is no sadness, for they in the end realize that they do love each other, even if it does cost them their lives. Even Nameless, who is portrayed as a liar and a swindler in the other perspectives, proves that he can be heroic as well.

Dammit, that's the thing about Quentin Tarantino films, there's no black or white, it's always a grey area, you've got to keep on thinking, I guess. Anyone here see Reservoir Dogs?