I feel like I wanna cry of sadness, joy, question my existence, rethink my life choices, and so much more. This is the DEFINITIVE CLIMAX of television shows, my people. I don't even know where to start...
first of all, I've always known Germans are hopeless romantics, Göthe captivated me in high school and now DARK. This incredible ending shows us the biggest two dualities of life: love and death. Somehow, it manages to portray them beautifully and show that in the end, love is our primal motivation as human beings. Christopher Nolan already explored this idea in Interstellar, but OMG not even close the level of complexity, thesis, analysis and portrayal of this idea like dark. I find it beautiful that when you're gazing at the abyss, and the abyss is gazing back at you, if you do it FOR and WITH love, it doesn't matter how profoundly eternally dark the abyss is. I mean, HOW could they manage to success portray an idea profoundly complex and difficult to gasp? HOW could they show us maybe eternal darkness is not as bad as it could be?
Of course modern psychology gives us tools to let go of those archaic Romanticism ideals of "dying for love" and actually it never appealed to me before this idea, but Dark makes it so fking beautiful, they almost convince me. I cried so much after the end, because it's the XXI century representation of DYING for love in the most literal sense of words. Dying not like in your atoms will become part of the soil or the air like in natural death but I mean LITERALLY. Their atoms disintegrate, their parallel world is no longer existing. Tschüss. Bis niemals. Eternal Dunkelheit, aber vielleicht das ist nicht sehr schlecht.
Profoundly moving. I'm still paralyzed. My heart's still beating rapidly. Dark is a whole experience. A philosophical kick in the guts. A love letter to Nietzsche, maybe?
