What makes a film without a single scare, scary? Why is Bong Joon-ho's 2003 crime thriller, Memories of Murder so dark and gloomy, despite its plentiful comedic reliefs and lack of violence?
The secret is in its 'colours', or more precisely, the colours that are hidden in plain sight. Let's explore how Bong Joon-ho approaches visual storytelling, and what we can learn from his techniques.

Warning: take everything with a grain of salt - lots of fun speculations intended as a means to explore, dissect, and analyze the tricks.

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Extra Credits:

A fun read on what color scheme means in a film: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how...

Common color schemes:
https://www.cined.com/film-color-sche...

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Timestamp
0:00 The Tunnel Scene
2:19 Visual Storytelling
2:37 Characters
3:58 Hidden in Plain Sight
4:28 Red Green Blue
4:58 Desaturation
5:55 Opening Sequence
6:59 Blending Colors
7:55 White
8:49 The One Scene
9:24 Green
10:05 Blue
10:35 Red
11:17 The Colors
12:03 Memories of Murder
13:07 Thank you

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