Colour appearance in the movie were depended upon the faction. Each factions has their own colours that represents their habits. The first faction was Abnegation. Then it was followed by Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. The analysis was offered as follows:
a) Abnegation Colour
Abnegation is dominated by grey colour. It could be seen from the colour of their wardrobe and the colour of Abnegations’ building. Grey has a light and dark colour. Based on the theory colour used, developed by Wierzbicka, grey colour is included into one of mixed colours. Grey is a mixed colour as a combination of black and white. Based on the colour psychology article, grey means unemotional colour. This colour stands …show more content…
Yellow means cheerfulness, offering hope, optimism, fun and good humored. This is appropriate for Amity that they always happy and enjoy everything they did to maintain the peace. Meanwhile, red has meaning of energy and excitement related to the movie. Orange itself is a mixed colour of red and yellow. This colour refers to warmth and happiness as the combination of yellow and red that means of happiness and exicetment. Brown, like pink, orange, grey and purple, is often regarded as a “composite colour” – a kind of visual mixture of yellow and black, or yellow and black with an admixture of red – that is, in effect, a mixture of orange and black (Wierzbicka 1996:327). As it stated in the psychology of colour, brown is a predominant colour along with green. Brown is comforting and stabilizing while green is balancing and rejuvenating. The appropriate condition appeared in the story of Amity with its life. Relation of land and plants that make those colour appear as the identity of …show more content…
Dauntless was dominated by Black and Red. In this case, Black in Dauntless means a power. This colour gives protection from external emotional stress. Black is related to power, strength and death. As it stated in color psychology, black is intimidating, unfriendly and unapproachable because of the power it exudes. Dauntless is the protectors in this movie for the society. They give their body and soul as the weapon to the system. The meaning of black colour are related to the aptitude of Dauntless. They are strong and must have power in order to be able to protect the society. People who put power as their first idea will be easily intimidating others. This intimidation gives an unfriendly assessment to Dauntless, which it is shown up in the scene that most of dauntless are unfriendly to other factions, even inside of the faction