Although best known as a copycat cash-in of Jaws, the film Orca: The Killer Whale is a creature feature that, unlike Jaws, foregrounds the animal experience and challenges anthropocentric actions on the world’s seas. Indeed, rather than incite large-scale fear of its central animal, Orca engenders empathy and identification in orcas, which “generate[s] a different (and arguably) more ambitious emotion”. This chapter outlines the historical tragedies behind orca cinema and spectacle as well as explaining the salient animal science behind the orca’s incredibly intelligent brain and, specifically, its extremely developed insular cortex—the part of the brain most associated with consciousness, self-awareness, interpersonal relations, emotions, and empathy. I then apply a colour-reading lens to the film, investigating how Orca uses exaggerated colours and a coded mise-en-scène to represent and lend a voice to the “voiceless” during a heightened moment of trauma. This comparative analysis is paired with the film, Three Colours: Blue, where, again, colour palettes are employed to translate emotion, intent, and mood in lieu of traditional human concepts of conversation after a similar familial trauma. Drawing together these two strands on animal cognition and colour-reading, I ultimately argue for both advocacy-based readings of colour as well as the possibilities of polyvalent interpretations of colour as means of navigating/mediating interspecies understanding and challenging conventionally anthropocentric readings of nonhuman experiences.