Rumors that there is research that wearing colorful clothes has an effect on people's behavior and emotions are occasionally the subject of the magazine agenda. It is believed that wearing colorful clothes is one of the best ways to impress the other person, especially red clothes!
It is thought that women are prejudiced against their fellow women who wear red clothes and do not want them around their husbands and lovers. Just one color, red, seems to be enough to be jealous.
I would like to discuss women in red from a cinematic perspective and focus on the behavior of women in red and the behavior of the opposite sex around them in the films I have seen. Since this will be limited to the films I have seen, I may have omitted the most prominent films about women in red.
The first thing that comes to mind is the 1984 movie The Woman In Red. Teddy, a good husband and family man, is sitting in the seat of his car in the garage when he sees a woman in a red dress, her skirt and red underwear billowing upwards as she passes through the ventilation shaft. The woman, enjoying the breeze coming from the vent, goes back into the vent and starts dancing as the air blows her skirt up. Teddy follows her and loses all his personality up to that moment.
Teddy is emboldened by the effect of the woman in red because soon afterwards he whistles in the elevator, looking at the woman in red. Where does this encouragement come from? Because the appearance of the woman in red and her movements over the ventilation shaft are inviting for Teddy.
Is wearing a sexy red dress inviting? For Teddy it is, because it attracts attention and more limelight. And for Teddy this is the beginning of the road to hanging on a window sill. Teddy's life, his marriage is turned upside down.
As far as I know, there are many adaptations of the movie from earlier and later years. In my country, the 1985 movie "Aşık Oldum" was an adaptation of the movie The Woman In Red, about the effects of a woman wearing red with Şener Şen's mastery.
In the 1999 movie The Matrix, while Morpheus is explaining the workings of the Matrix to Neo via simulation, a blonde woman wearing a red dress passes by Neo... and the sight of the woman in red distracts Neo. Morpheus notices this and asks, Are you listening to me? Are you looking at the woman in red? Before Neo can answer, the woman in red turns into an agent and puts a gun to Neo's head. Because everyone who is not saved in the Matrix is a potential spy.
Although dozens of men and women passed by him before the woman in the red dress, only the woman in the red dress caught Neo's attention and he was distracted. If it was the real Matrix and not a simulation, Neo would have died already.
The red dress really has an effect on the opposite sex. It's not only men who say this, women also try to keep the men who are with them away from women wearing red. The red dress, which is treated as inviting in the movie The Woman In Red, is used to distract Neo in the movie The Matrix.
Many years ago I also witnessed a simple accident when a motorcycle driver who was looking at a woman in a red dress crossing the road at a red light hit the car in front of him. Although he had slowed down, he was distracted and forgot to stop!
All of this could be evidence of the influence of red, its invitation or its ability to cause distraction. Or this is the perception that is being created in society. After all, red clothes add extra beauty and symbolic power.
Curated by @ultravioletmag