Today we will talk about the German drama "Darkness Season 1".
The title of the film is Dark Season 1 (2017), alias Dark (Hong Kong/Taiwan) / Dark World / Dark World / Darkness.
A year ago I saw a list about "Netflix 2020 Hottest International Film and TV Series in the U.S.". The list is all non-U.S. film and television works. The third-ranked TV series is this German film. The play "Darkness".
The basis for being selected into this list is not based on actual ratings data, but based on the work being played for at least 2 minutes by users within 28 days of its launch.
Director Baran bo Odar's 2014 "Who Am I: Kein System ist sicher" (Who Am I-Kein System ist sicher) performed well, so Netflix threw an olive branch to him, thinking He should be invited to film a suspenseful reasoning drama based on children's perspectives.
Barron Bo Ondal wanted to use "The Missing" (2014) as inspiration to make a TV series and a movie about time travel. In the end, these elements were combined, and the shooting became the current "Dark".
In the past few years, Netflix relied on "Stranger Things" and "Foresight" to film supernatural stories of children's disappearance, and achieved great success. Now Netflix continues to use this model to tell a series of children's disappearances that occurred in Germany.
"Darkness" is the first German TV series produced by Netflix. "Darkness" is not simply a copy of the previous work, but is based on the disappearance of the child, and then put on the cloak of time. What follows is a series of dog-blood families. Ethical drama.
In February 2016, Netflix approved the "Dark" project, and then ordered the second season in December 2017, and renewed the third season of the final season of the show before the second season was released in June 2019.
Audiences who like the suspenseful elements of brain-burning can rest assured and boldly complete this well-known German drama.
The first season of "Dark" first gave the entire series circle a space to give full play to imagination. They were in 1953, 1986 and 2019, and they were all 33 years apart.
According to the story in the play, the sun and the moon cycle every 33 years, plus the leak of cesium from the nuclear power plant in 1983, forming a time cycle that affects the past and the next 33 years.
As shown in the picture above, one of the most important settings of this play is that the past can affect the future, and the future will also affect the past. The three periods of time have long been tightly bound together, and they influence each other.
From this there is another important setting. The characters in the play do not move forward linearly in time, but act in a circular motion within three periods of time.
The protagonist can travel to 33 years through a similar wormhole device, or after 33 years, travel back and forth between 1953, 1986 and 2019.
Emerald Stele
The photo in the frame on the wall of the hospital in 1986 and the tattoo on Noah's back are both the emerald stele, which is part of the ancient text "Hermetica".
Hermetica is a collection of mysterious "wisdom books" from Greece and Egypt in the second century AD. The content describes alchemy experiments, transformation, and the creation of the universe. The book also contains a kind of philosophical thought, discussing the interaction and influence between large and small actions, which is the core theme of the play.
Really because of this philosophical thought, some people claim that this book is much older than the language it contains, and it may come from the unknown, aliens or time travel.
The soundtrack in "Darkness" uses a sound effect that mimics the "Doppler effect".
When the ambulance is approaching oncoming, you will hear a higher voice, and when the ambulance is leaving, you will hear a lower voice again. This is the "Doppler effect."
The use of the "Doppler effect" in the soundtrack also hints at the central position of the Doppler family in the story.
The prelude music for the beginning of the play is called "Goodbye" (Goodbye), which was written by the German musician Apparat.
This song has already been used in various movie trailers and TV shows. The audience is most likely to have the impression of being in the climate scene at the end of the fourth season of Breaking Bad.
In "Dark", most of the time, each episode uses a different song.
These songs usually appear 10 to 12 minutes before the end.
During the performance of the song, this episode will summarize multiple timelines, and the lyrics are often related to the context of the episode.
Even the soundtrack is so attentive, which is also a major factor in the success of "Dark".
In "Dark", time is a core element.
In almost every scene in the room, you can see a certain clock, not limited to wall clocks, wrist clocks, alarm clocks, etc.
If you hear the clock "ticking" between scene changes, it means that the timeline has also changed.
Judging from the selection of actors in this show, you will find that these young and old actors are really similar.
If you remember the face a little bit, you can still tell who is who.
If "Star Wars" is a space family ethics drama, then "Darkness" is a small town time and space travel ethics drama.
An important setting of this play is that the future will also affect the past. If you only think that the past will affect the future, then you will not be able to understand the play.
The main role of the first season is to draw a framework for the time cycle, using a setting that seems to have a scientific basis as the background, adding some theological philosophies, and then arranging for actors of all sizes to go back and forth.
The audience also followed the characters to jump back and forth in the timeline, slowly sorting out the interpersonal relationships in this small town. As time changes, the seniority also changes, and a series of interesting butterfly effects will follow.
There is causality but no time rate,
Struggling in vain under the cycle of time.
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