The Dark series revolves around an unusual, intertwined story that links several families to supernatural relationships and perversions, set in a German town, where two young children suddenly disappear, revealing dangerous secrets of the relationship of four families between them.
This German series, produced by Netflix, exceeded the boundaries of what was expected and kept wrapping in time until we left us not believing that all this creativity comes from the country of Deutschland and not from Hollywood. The series falls under the category of mystery and science fiction, and it discusses the topic of time travel as it builds its dramatic plot on the lives of four families and their relationship between them, a dramatic plot that swings on the line between fantasy and reality.
We all know that time travel is not theoretically and practically not possible until now, but this series, with its story and the way it was directed, made you think again about the subject, through the intensity of the realism of the accessories, scenery decorations, non-exaggerated visual effects and the music that carries you from your place and puts you in The atmosphere of the story ... and many of the things that made this series seem close to the effect significantly.
The most important pillars of this series lies in the professional performance of the two actors, for example there are characters that require more than one actor for one in order to cover three periods of time discussed in the series, and every period of time is performed by a specific actor in a manner identical to the others in all respects, starting from the way of acting through the physical body to the facial features According to the specific period of time, which indicates that the casting process or the selection of actors was very enormous during the preparation stage of filming; If you are looking for three actors or three actresses to play the same character in three different periods of time and ages with great professionalism, this means that you are facing a huge television production, of course it is Netflix!
Let's now from this boring and wandering review, and let us delve into the story of the series and define a beginning and an end for it and explain it well in order to understand what is going on, where and when ... (What will come may contain spoilers! Spoilers ahead)
In a town called "Winden Winden" in Germany, there is a very deep cave or cave, inside which there is a hole or a gap connected to three time gates, the first leading to 1953, the second to 1986 and the third to 2019. Anyone who enters the gap in that cave can To fall at any time in the two times, according to the gate that he chose when he was in the cave. For example, the child "Mikel", at the beginning of the series, belonged to the time 2019, and when he entered the cave, he chose the side in which the Time Gate 1986 was located.
It was precisely here that the events began, when the child "Mikkel" disappeared in the woods in the year 2019, somehow Mikel entered that cave and found himself in the year 1986, to encounter the nurse "Ines Kahnwald", where she adopted him and raised him and then changed his name to "Michael Canold Michael Kahnwald.
Then Michael grew up and married "Hannah Kruger" and had a child named "Jonas", then when Michael realized that he really came from the future and that he could not get out of the vicious circle in which his family will live again and again to no end and that he has no hope of returning to His time and returning to his parents and family, he could not stand, so he committed suicide. Here, his father, Ulrich Nielsen, will search for him and find that cave by accident that his son traveled through, but he did not travel to the same time in 1986, but rather traveled through the time gate of 1953.
The series does not discuss the topic of time travel in its applied artistic idea only, but rather goes beyond that, as it says that when anyone enters that cave and reaches the three time gates, then he has three options to continue, either he takes a gate direction Time for the year 1986, or the time gate for the year 1953, or he can go back to where he came, that is, go back to his time, that is, the time gate for the year 2019.
Noah (one of the characters in the series) says: When anyone is at the place where the three gates meet, and then chooses a specific gate (as Ulrich did), this choice he made is predestined before, or chosen from time immemorial. In other words, when a person decides to travel from 2019 to 1953, his actions have already affected the year 2019 even before he starts the journey, and it is impossible to change the matter. It becomes like destiny and destiny, or in other words it becomes like a vicious circle that does not contain a beginning or an end, we do not know when it began or when it ends, and this thorny issue reminds us of the movie Predestination, which is based on the same idea
Why does the character Noah kidnap children? Although the series does not explain this well, if you watch it again, you will understand that he is kidnapping them in order to experiment with them about the possibility of time travel without relying on that cave, where he kidnapped children from 1953, 1986 and 2019. Therefore, the explanation of that boy who found his body in the year 2019 in the woods and noticed that his clothes and needs do not belong to their time, meaning that Noah was experimenting on him, so he ended up in the year 2019.
If you understand the events well and look at the story from the top, you will find that it is a vicious circle, with no beginning or end, and will keep repeating itself every 33 years, and some of his characters know this, that there is no point in trying to travel to the past or the future in order to change the course of this Episode in and out of it. As the watchmaker H.G. Tannhaus pointed out, in theory we can't do it, but added: We can try. And that's what we saw both Claudia (the big personality) and Jonas (the adult) do and the same thing as Noah trying to do.
However, at the end of the series, the matter may have changed, as we saw the boy "Jonas" move to a time other than the three times, and as we saw in that last scene it seems that he has moved to the future, to a fourth time, and this time will be the year 2052 because according to Travel controls through those gates in the cave. You cannot travel a day, a week, a year or two years, you can only travel 33 years to the future or the past. But we cannot say for sure until the second season is released and we know where the events will continue and how the concept will be discussed.
Did you see how these four families, when they got involved in this cave that leads to time travel, and thus mixing their members to the point where some of them meet themselves or find themselves in a relationship with his aunt ... How did they become in a vicious circle, not knowing when it started and when it will end?
But this does not mean that the series is wonderful and perfect, if you think carefully, you will find that it is based on a concept that is already contradictory to itself, the concept of time travel, like many films that revolve around this concept (see, for example: Triangle, Timecrimes, or Predestination ... You will find it very complicated and difficult to understand, but in the end it remains incomplete and illogical!