An odd, vague question - films where red and blue are used as contrasts in order to highlight conflicting moods, express relationships of oppositions and the like. I can come up with three examples at the moment: Bertolucci's "Little Buddha" works with blue for the cold, cruel and soulless West, and red or other warm colours for the spiritual, hope-giving etc. East. Shinya Tsukamoto's latest film "Tokyo Fist" (which I'm watching at the moment, that's where I got the idea from) contrasts blue for the unphysical, anonymous, sedate and cool urban Tokyo world with red for the physical, the violent and the rotten (all the boxing scenes are virtually drowning in red light). The third film is one whose title and director I can, to my embarrassment, not remember. It was a megahit of Indian cinema in 1993 or 1994, starring Madhuri Dixit and Sanjay Dutt. Dutt played a terrorist, which became particularly relevant when, just at the time the film came out, he was arrested for smuggling weapons (so much for an intertwining of film and reality). The catchiest thing about the film was its main song "khor likhe pichhe khyar he" (sp?), which haunted me for a couple of months. In this film, red is good and blue (mostly dark blue, almost black) is evil, and there are telling scenes where dark or blue space is broken up by red rays of light. Birgit Kellner Department for Indian Philosophy University of Hiroshima ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]