Plato

essed similarly but Plato seems cold. Plato's coldness is equated with loneliness. He is in jailhouse on his birthday, he lacks any sort parental foundation. Jim then walks up to Plato and asks, "wanna borrow my jacket?" Jim's offer is subject to Plato's inquiry because of his hatred for any parental benevolence. The fact that Jim tries to protect Plato without even knowing him just portrays an idealistic fatherly characteristic. Jim is trying to compensate for his own father. After this scene Jim is in the office with his parents where the viewer can see how superficial his parents are, (to Jim) "Don't we buy you everything you want?" In this scene, Jim straightens the collar of his father's jacket, another fatherly gesture, it should be the other way around. Jim then looks through the glass at Plato and asks, "Why didn't you take my jacket." This is a key point because Jim wants to become the fatherly figure to Plato because Jim needs to become the ideal father to compensate for his own weak father. This is the realization that the fantasy could occur.
             This same scene introduces Judy. This scene contains many neutral colors of tan, blue, white and black. The viewer sees Judy in the blood red jacket with blood red lipstick. The audience later learns that Judy is in the jailhouse for wandering the streets after her father rubs her lipstick off her lips, "He looks at me like I am the ugliest thing in the world." Red is normally associated to violence, lust and passion and later we learn that Judy desires to kiss her father and her father slaps her for trying. Her father's resistance to her affection closes the door to the adult world. Her father is uncomfortable with the idea that Judy is growing up and he is connecting passion and lust with her. However, in the same instance he is angry with her for acting like a little girl by kissing him. After he...

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