Dibujo de David
2007 · 20m · España
Directed by Iván Morales
Genres: crime, drama, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, dark, melancholic
Thanks to his drawings, David can see colours through a black-and-white world; his best friend Pons constantly appears in his sketchbook, always playing — until today, when David has committed an absurd and horrible crime and Pons's model no longer exists.
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A kid's drawings are literally the only colour in a monochrome world, and then he murders someone—it's the kind of premise that sounds like a student exercise until it isn't, and Morales actually commits to the absurdity without winking at the camera.
The formal conceit—colour as moral or psychological privilege—sits in dialogue with magical realism and German Expressionism, though the execution feels more sketch than finished work; the framing device of drawing-as-reality deserves more rigorous visual architecture.
The choice to render the world in black-and-white except for David's sketchbook forces every emotional beat through a single visual language, and that restraint makes the moment when Pons stops appearing hit harder than any expensive colour grade ever could.