Sep 27, 2013
The effectiveness of black and white filming
Pablo's Winter was an excellent film about a man named Pablo who is suffering from over-smoking and years of exposure to mercury due to his former job as a miner. The film explores the current situation of Pablo and other remaining miners left in the small Spanish village by showing their experience during their last 40 years of life. One unique aspect that the film uses to portray its story is the use of black and white filmography. The way it uses it gives the audience a sense of nostalgia and loss, as the film uses a old medium that has long been out of use. In this way the filmmakers are able to show the melancholy of both Pablo and his town's past by showing rather than just informing.