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colorless
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For all of his personal colorlessness, he appeared to relish his role as the bete noir of the reform movement.
One Hour Photo is an art-house suspense film, a careful miniature that makes its points through studied visual constructions, like the relentless chromatic contrasts that define the colorlessness of Sy's life--his clothes white and gray, his car white, the furniture and paneling in his apartment a dreary shade of oatmeal--versus the Yorkins' rainbow tumult of toys, gardens, blue pool.
The answer is not to retreat into colorlessness but to reconstitute the definition of the self into something that acknowledges the conditions of her physical being: the visible evidence of her whiteness and her blackness, the heritage of slavery and sexual abuse.
 
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