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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 …

In our first part of this essay, orange distinguished Amelie’s perspective and gradually seeped into the mise-en-scene. By colouring emotions of comfort and belonging with orange, we could relate to Amelie’s fantastical world. A children’s classic attesting to the power of imagination, the film version of A Little Princess employs orange in a, …