Hunt For The Wilderpeople

I’m going to briefly indulge in writing about the use of the colour red in ‘Hunt for the Wilder People’, directed by Taika Waititi.

In a scene where the adopted Ricky Baker witnesses his Foster Mother hunting and killing a New Zealand wild boar, the action is captured by close up shots of rapid knife movement, Tarantino-esque over-the-top blood splatter with a zooming cut back and forth to Ricky Bakers expressions. A full screen of red is used to break up the action, in a powerfully emotive way. Yet keeping a strange disjointed humour and cartoonish feel with the block colour.

I would like to investigate how many other films have used block colours to add meaning and a more abstract tone to the visuals.