Use Colour To Express Character's Mood

Yesterday I watched a film "A Single Man", which Owen recommended to me. The movie tells a story about a middle-aged English professor George can not extricate themselves immersed in the shadow of death by car accident with his partner Jim who lived 16 years with him. And George decided to commit suicide. This film record the whole day's activities of him.

 

I think this is an art film, the colour in this film is so beautiful. The director use a very hide and deep way to express the character of protagonist. At begining of this film, the colour is grey and bule, it's the best way use this colour to express George's mood is very sad and he miss Jim very much. Audience can feel the distressed from mixed bule and grey.

 

And then, when George meet someone who want to make him happy the colour has been changed. The images become more colourful and vivid. The background changed to warm orange. We can feel the snug from these warm colour. It seems that our mood have been changed to happy through the warm colour.

 

I think the change of colour can make the director to express character's personality and mood. It can support the script to discribe a delicate story.

 

Here the official trailer for  " A Single Man", you can see how the colour changes.