Question
Throughout Better Call Saul Season 6, all future events (after the main storyline of Breaking Bad ends and Saul lives a low-profile life in exile) are shown in black and white.
Normally, events happening in the past are shown as black and white, while events in the present or future are shown in full color.
Why does Better Call Saul reverse this common practice?
Answer
The color change serves to immediately alert the viewer to the time jump. Generally it is the past that is shown without color, however since moments in the past are predominant in the series doing so would make viewing annoying. The lack of color highlights the fact that Saul's quality of life has declined (in a sense it is as if he is traveling backward from success to failure) and that he has had to suppress his bursting personality, which gives a depressed flavor to the scenes. Maybe when Saul makes his personality re-emerge with his flamboyant clothes and maybe he meets Kim again the colors will reappear, that would be amazing.
Answered By - Alain Bianchini
