Alan Parker, director of Angela's Ashes, has unique choices in setting, lighting, and color. Throughout the whole movie the lighting is usually a gray-blue color. Bright lighting or coloring close to nonexistant, only for important details. This is used to emphasize the melancholic atmosphere of the movie. One of the most prominent instances of coloring and lighting is the ending scene, where Frank arrives in America. The ending scene averts the overall gloominess by casting a golden light on the seas to America in order to show a fresh new start. The ocean looks like a sea of gold, symbolizing the prosperity and new times Frank is headed towards to. Another scene was when Frank threw the money lender's records into the river. The lighting in that scene was slightly brighter, conveying a sense of freedom.
There are many recurring motifs in Angela's Ashes. Parker's first noticeable recurring motif is the constant use of water. No matter where the family is, it is either always raining or the sky is covered in fog or rain clouds. The director chooses to use water as a means of washing away "impurities", like the debt collector's records and the father's drinking habits. The director also likes to take multiple shots of the lanes. The lanes are extremely narrow and not a clean place to live near.
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