I wanna come here and step close to the mic to say ;
RED IS NOT ALEX FORBES COLOR.
Now, before someone comes to murder me in my sleep, I would like to make y’all pause for a moment and just— just walk with me.
Firstly, why is it that our first instinct is to associate Alex with red?
A lot of reasons actually. His obvious lack of control when it comes to his emotions, making his anger issues pop out. His anger and violence is red. Danger is red.
(And if I really wanna be controversial and piss someone off, I would say that red should be Nigel’s color. He’s the one dissecting, getting broken (& bloody) noses, killing innocent girls and pushing his own parents to their deaths to fulfil a religious myth, and later killing himself without a second thought.
Lots of blood, lot’s of calm brutality, after all, MURDER is RED.
Well, at least those things scream “pretty red” to me…)
Okay now back to the point I was trying to make; then what is Alex Forbes’ color?
I will need y’all to brace yourselves for this one;
Alex Forbes’ color is GREEN.
HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT.
Alex’s eyes are a deep rich green that make his natural beauty and innocent appearance pop. And that specific feature that Eddie Redmayne has is just so— perfect.
Because those eyes, that get teary and show so much emotions that Alex does not dare to speak are actually what disguises his game.
Alex and the color green go hand in hand, because green is normalcy, green is naivety.
Green is what Alex is surrounded by.
If we just look at the scenes, if we pay A LITTLE ATTENTION, we can see that there’s green literally EVERYWHERE.
And why that’s brilliant, you ask?
Because his prominent green actually HIDES the red inside.
The green is the innocence that he displays when he is being questioned in the police station, is the wild spirit Alex doesn’t hesitate to let out in the middle of the night, is the deep connection he has to his instincts.
The green is what Alex uses (very intelligently) to hide the red he knows is buried under his skin.
More specifically, JACK.
Jack is red. Not Alex.
AND the moment those colors (red and green) start to mix with one another, is the moment when Nigel comes and takes over Alex’s thoughts.
Nigel wants to make the red in Alex’s soul prominent, because if he let’s it out, if he makes Alex replace the green for the red (if he becomes his Jack over Alex) they will match, not only in colors but in ideas.
So yep :p