That room is awfully red
Not just the walls, but then they repeat the color on the tablecloth.
Is the subtext that it's a red light district?
Can you imagine living in such a room every day?
I always figured it was meant to reference a certain work of art.
http://www.henrimatisse.org/images/gallery/the-dessert-harmony-in-red.jpg
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It's me....Bara...it's always bloody Bara!
Yes, certainly, but why should the film want to reference that?
sharewhy not?
It doesn't even have to reference anything; remember that these cinemascope films where HUMONGOUS attractions to theatregoers (their version of 3D Imax blah-blah or whatever the latest craze is to-day.
Putting these huge amounts of colour was a way to "blow their minds" and show something other films couldn't - especially since the majority of films - even at this time - were still mostly black and white.
I like the idea, though, that inspiration was garnered from the painting.
It also works as a trick. You can still have rich and bright colours, but because the pallet of the entire scene is still mostly monochromatic, the actors and props and such stand out much more; making you focus on them.
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It's me....Bara...it's always bloody Bara!