DARK WATER
Divorcee and daughter move into a creepy apartment building where strange events start to occur, and when the mom finds information about a missing girl that use to live upstairs, strange things start to happen. Director Hideo Nakata used a variety of techniques in his production design to portray specific themes in this film, Dark Water (2002). The overriding theme that was portrayed in Dark Water is that the past will come back to haunt you until you resolve it.
Nakata's use of color, as a part of production design, played a large part in conveying specific moods and feelings to the viewer. Red, blue, and yellow were the main colors I saw throughout the film. With red came fear and the unexpected. Throughout the film, Yoshimi Matsubara, the mother, had a taunting experience with a mysterious red bag that kept showing up after being repeatedly thrown away. Also, in the lobby, when the mom could not find her daughter, there were two red lights in the shot. This cast a......

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Title: Dark Water
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