BLACK WORLD

In the beginning of the movie, Nameless enters the King’s palace where the soldiers, the King’s garb, and Nameless’s garb are all black. The amount of black in the scenes can give people a strong sense of oppression and demonstrates dissatisfaction and resentment of the people when the king waged war against the six states. Many of the scenes that involved black were still shots making the color black seem like a hard stone.

In Chinese culture, black is usually associated with death, sadness, lonliness, coldness. Black in this movie signifies the cold bloodedness and stillness of the Empire.