The Royal Tenebaums

It's a movie. A good one. Concerning plot, it's about the Tenebaum family and their lives. From paranoid widowers to emotionally detatched writers, ever-caring mothers and asshole fathers, The Royal Tenebaums manages to glide through many aspects of life in a very dry and personal way. While the storyline is beautiful in itself, what I really wanted to talk about here was the cinematography of the movie.
Colors play a huge role in the movie. The Tenebaum name is always represented in a rich green with gold accents. It seems to embody a kind of aging glory that forever remains powerful, if only older. Now rather than going through a bunch of names that you may or may not recognize, I am going to pick out a couple of scenes. The character of Margot Tenebaum is a very depressing, apathetic character who seems to hold no emotional weight for most of the movie. However, her fair skin and child-cut hairstyle contrast with her personality. She is also portrayed in very light, feminine pastels throughout the movie. Perhaps the only character about her that speaks of her utter emotional detatchment is her incredibly heavy black eye make-up. Otherwise, her overall appearance and setting embodies feminine innocence and delicacy. Her huge faux-fur coat exaggerates the youthful wonder of her character.
Richie Tenebaum is much like Margot in that he does not show a lot of emotion. However, unlike Margot, he maintains a cool and calm composure that is more socially inviting. To compliment his personality, he is dressed in blues and whites. He appears on a white boat out in the ocean and in a brilliantly blue bathroom. The bathroom is a big part of the movie, with colors I mean. The calm blue reacts violently with the red blood and dark brown hair, adding an unspoken intensity to the scene.
Basically, The Royal Tenebaums is a wonderful movie that I highly recommend. I mean, unless you're looking for action-packed sex scandals. But the movie does have drugs, several sex scandals, several financial scandals, several love scandals, and one car crash. It's good business.

-Aerica