An inspiration would be stanely kubrick who would use colours and environments to depict the characters mood and traits e.g. In eyes wide shut blue and not so much red but amber play a key role in highlighting the difference between the cold world out side the couples relationship and the warm safe world they start off in. You can see the blue creep more and more into their home throughout the film and the amber is used to create warm safe havens that can also give way to the blue when truths are revealed and characters reveal their true colours. It’s part of the films powerful psychological narrative, you don’t need to notice it for it to effect the way you feel. In the other of his films you gave examples of there wasn’t that much use of those colours beyond creating contrast and dramatic imagines and using red for danger etc but they certainly had their own colour schemes and meanings. I always felt there was something delicious about giving Alex and his droogies white outfits seeing as white is so often used to connote innocence. I think in a way there was something innocent about them which is another meaning in the film, they were who they were, unlike the society they were in which had its own deceitful, hypocrisy and agenda.
Instead of a more head on approach I think a more symbolic and abstract approach would be the way. I still remeber one of my very basic art lessons where we were asked a question who came first ‘the line or the dot’. Now it’s a chicken and egg kind of debate because one cannot co-exist without the other.
The line and dot are also the basic principles of design. If you were to analyse the natural and man-made environment, you would soon discover that the simplest object is the dot or point. The dot is generally small and uncomplicated in shape. If the dot is extended in its primary dimension of length, the object is known as a line. The linear object may be straight or curved, regular or irregular. However, when a line encloses itself, it has two primary dimensions; length and breadth. The resulting object is known as a planar shape. These shapes can be organic or inorganic or biomorphic. When a plethora of shapes are developed in a third primary direction, it is known as a solid or a more limited form.
In 1965, a similar abstract appraoch was taken by the famous cartoonist Chuck Jones and created The Dot and the Line – A Romance in Lower Mathematics for schools. The short itself won the Academy award for best short film.
Nukta
The Story
The story starts when show a red dot roaming around, living a carefree life and starts to feel a bit unwell. the dot goes a bit of haywire and a line burts out from it. The line although at first is seen as a new born, but it quickly breaks the norm and starts to learn more about itself. Learns that it could bend and before you know it goes on a war with the dot. The line plays around with the dot and eventually they both start to mix and inter twine to become a dna strand and they keep on replicating. This story is basically about life starts and continues.
Arsalan Awais 