From the opening moments of black - and -
white bleakness on a field of dead men as a shellshocked horse startles Lee Marvin, the images are rich, varied, and all - of - a-piece.
Not exact matches
Most notably, Scorsese's ending is bleaker, and in its
bleakness, is indefatigably black and
white: Violence is wrong, police are good, but nothing — including justice — truly matters.
Nebraska is filmed in black and
white, and in the earliest scenes the plain palette suggests nothing but
bleakness — an impression heightened as David drives Woody through the empty country of the heartland with its open spaces and run - down towns.
The figures» caricature - like outlines and the works» pastel and candy colours belie the
bleakness of their content: burial mounds, swamps full of wine bottles, stumps instead of trees, a lone cottage and isolated, skeletal humans, both Native Americans and
white pioneers, seemingly wracked by melancholy, hunger and substance abuse.