One of the most striking colours in Bong Joon-ho’s award winning film Parasite (2019) is orange. The film presents a world where extreme poverty and extreme wealth maintain a ruinous symbiotic relationship: where the poor transform into parasites to survive, and the rich act as heartless parasites, leeching off each …
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Orange shades are associated with negative effects mostly, but not necessarily, when orange is related to chemicals. Anxiety, depression, insanity, in general, negative mental states can be associated with the characters surrounded by a context featuring toxic orange components. In visual storytelling orange shades emanating harmful, poisonous atmosphere may feature …
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