Characters Who Are Literally You
your lawn says otherwise
based
bros....he's literally me
No joke, I said this exact line near word-for-word years before True Detective even came out. Just as my mother!
>In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So Death created time to grow the things that it would kill. And you are reborn, but into the same life that you've always been born into. I mean, how many times have we had this conversation, detectives? Well, who knows? When you can't remember your lives, you can't change your lives, and that is the terrible and the secret fate of all life. You're trapped by that nightmare you keep waking up into.
>You're trapped by that nightmare you keep waking up into.
this is a very good line honestly
I like to mow my friends lawn
Chandler
also 'a dream you had inside of a locked room'
>Chandler
Fucking cuck
>To realize that all your life - you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memories, all your pain - it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams, there's a monster at the end of it.
Will we ever get kino like this again, boys? I fear this was the pinnacle of TV.
was lightning in a bottle
>fukunaga direction
>great source material
>well written characters and dialogue
>good nonlinear narrative form
>extremely kino setting
>great acting performances
>great soundtrack
>some interesting themes and ideas
we could criticize the ending, but even that worked in its way.
>we could criticize the ending, but even that worked in its way.
The only thing I'd really criticize about the ending is that Rust went from nihilism to optimism, or at least something approaching it. I'd have preferred if it ended exactly like it did, with Marty instead telling Rust the quote about the stars = light winning, and Rust just turning to him and delivering some bleak shutdown quote before they both smiled weakly and continued gazing at the night sky.
Nothing that occurred should have shifted Rust from nihilism to optimism, if anything he should have been even worse after the finale.
My understanding of that ending was that it represented his forging a connection with another human(Marty) for the first time since the death of his daughter, after which he was incapable of doing so, because of how painful the loss was. The philosophical issues are not really addressed at all, but whether you look at the situation optimistically or pessimistically is less about philosophy and more just about your psychological state, so it makes sense that he feels more hopeful now that he has regained some sense of normal human interaction. The relationship rehumanizes him or whatever and it has been long enough since his daughter died that he has come to terms with it and decided that what matters is to fight against evil anyway even though it's an endless struggle, which is fulfilled by the two of them catching their target, they did their part.
This is not a real answer to philosophical pessimism but it is an answer to the character in this show's state of mind.
>Past a certain age, a man without a family is a dangerous thing.
What exactly did he mean by this?
I went back to my hometown after not being there a while and a lot of shops were boarded up and the place looked like shit
I remember saying it reminded me of the movie Trainspotting
you know
>What exactly did he mean by this?
He meant it's literally over for men who are virgins past 20