Jennifer+Kim's+Analysis

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//Moulin Rouge// retains a range of insightful colors to establish a lavish yet reverent mood and atmosphere to the film. The use of saturated colors allows the visual effect of the film to be sharp and the details of the scenes to stand out. This is exemplified as the film’s protagonists Satine, the seductive and beautiful conrtesean of Moulin Rouge, and Christian, a sentimental poet, discuss the subject of love. In this scene, Satine is dressed in a fiery red dress with her red lips and hair fully saturated, achieving a strong contrast against her tinted white skin. Furthermore, the ornaments used to decorate the extravagant domains of Moulin Rouge follow a pattern of analogous harmony, red, pink, purple, and indigo. The parallel in the colors serve to make the signature colors of red, blue and black to appear more striking. Atmospheric color are also used in order to provoke certain moods in the scene. For instance, as the Duke attempt to violate Satine and she resists the dark room makes both appear a blue-indigo color, arousing a dark and perturbing mood.