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The Living Force
I'm not sure if anyone here has seen this Netflix original show? What did you think?
My recommendation to those who haven't is quite high.
The show is German and the premise is set around a small German village. It essentially plays out the drama of the people who live in the village. Beyond this, it's very difficult to describe the plot.
The trailer below will give the impression that it's about missing kids, or murder mystery or some sort of horror. Well, it kind of encapsulates elements from all these but it isn't particularly about any of them.
To put it simply without spoiling the plot, the show is about TIME. The story of time is told through the characters. The narrative is very intricate, the characters very carefully constructed, including their motivations, desires, fears etc.
The story is almost told in a circular fashion, where there's no beginning... or end for that matter. The past influences the future and the future influences the past. Make of that what you will, you have to watch to understand.
Questions of determinism are explored, and free will. How much free will do you have? How can you make choices differently if the future is already there, materialised? Surely every single choice you make will lead to that future and you won't know it until the future has materialised for you. But that future would have materialised for your future self before it did for you, the one making the decisions now. So how much free will do you really have? The future and past are not out there, in some far off distance, but are placed right next to the present. They don't exist independent from each other but are connected by this thing we call time.
We think of things having a beginning and an end. But what if the beginning is also the end? Where does the story begin and where does it end? We think the story begins in the past and ends in the future... But what if that isn't true?
Dark is essentially about all I said above after I mentioned it's a story, where the premise is set in a small German village.
If you want to watch something that is interesting, intriguing, entertaining, full of metaphysical concepts, like a puzzle, something which gets you thinking constantly throughout then this is the show for you.
Happy viewing.
My recommendation to those who haven't is quite high.
The show is German and the premise is set around a small German village. It essentially plays out the drama of the people who live in the village. Beyond this, it's very difficult to describe the plot.
The trailer below will give the impression that it's about missing kids, or murder mystery or some sort of horror. Well, it kind of encapsulates elements from all these but it isn't particularly about any of them.
To put it simply without spoiling the plot, the show is about TIME. The story of time is told through the characters. The narrative is very intricate, the characters very carefully constructed, including their motivations, desires, fears etc.
The story is almost told in a circular fashion, where there's no beginning... or end for that matter. The past influences the future and the future influences the past. Make of that what you will, you have to watch to understand.
Questions of determinism are explored, and free will. How much free will do you have? How can you make choices differently if the future is already there, materialised? Surely every single choice you make will lead to that future and you won't know it until the future has materialised for you. But that future would have materialised for your future self before it did for you, the one making the decisions now. So how much free will do you really have? The future and past are not out there, in some far off distance, but are placed right next to the present. They don't exist independent from each other but are connected by this thing we call time.
We think of things having a beginning and an end. But what if the beginning is also the end? Where does the story begin and where does it end? We think the story begins in the past and ends in the future... But what if that isn't true?
Dark is essentially about all I said above after I mentioned it's a story, where the premise is set in a small German village.
If you want to watch something that is interesting, intriguing, entertaining, full of metaphysical concepts, like a puzzle, something which gets you thinking constantly throughout then this is the show for you.
Happy viewing.