In a good part of the last chapter of the season Last of us, from HBO and available on HBO Max, its characters wonder about the future. it does Joel (Pedro Pascal), faced with the dilemma of whether the devastated world he lives in deserves a second chance.
Especially at what cost this hope, spoiled by defeat and betrayal, could come true. A point that Craig Mazin’s screenplay emphasizes more than once. How many characters are willing to lose in order to find light in the darkness of the fall of civilization?
Also Ellie (Bella Ramsey) questions the future. Still recovering from the traumatic experience he went through, things are not as clear cut as he thought. A constant survivor who has had to face a world shattered and devalued by the apocalypse since her birth has lost her way. In fact, the first frames of the last episode Last of us it is a way to explore the unseen suffering of a teenager.
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The day it all started Last of us
But the plot goes further and returns to the moment when the girl almost accidentally became a vehicle with a greater purpose. The script delves into the story invented by Neil Druckmann until it gets to the circumstances of the birth Ellie. Context answers one of the main questions Last of us and takes it to the next level. It also changes the size of the center of his narrative and connects him to the inevitable and often violent decisions that his desperation forces him to make.
For the first time a story about Ellie has a specific meaning. Specifically, his role in the conflict that the series subtly announced. His mother, Anna (played by Ashley Johnson in a nod to the source) was the first to realize the magnitude of what lay ahead for her daughter.
Still trembling from the pains of labor, she confidently held the child that would later become a teenager. The combination of a horrific accident with violence has opened the door to a hitherto unthinkable possibility. From the first day of his life, it was the prospect of a second chance for the world.
A future full of doubt
Ellie And Joel they have come a long way together. Not only geographical, which allowed them to cross the world in ashes, but also spiritual. What started with a man’s desperate promise Tess (Anna Torv) ended up being a rediscovery of her vulnerability, the still-open emotional wounds that the character carried on her back.
Craig Mazin tells the story Last of us view Joel’s new perspective on what’s to come. About the emotional debt that comes with being attached to a girl, and what that might mean when they meet the Fireflies. Beware, the plot puts what may be required of him when he must separate from Ellie, it will be of destructive proportions. What will he do when healing and his emotions diverge? How can he explain that the teenager became the driving force behind his decisions?
Director Ali Abbasi’s camera focuses on this journey of silence. The last remnants of the ruined landscape in Last of us they are symbols of everything that is at stake. Images of barren land, ruined buildings are darker than ever. The shadows lengthen, and a symbolic dawn appears on the horizon.
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The message is clear: achieving the purpose of the trip is becoming more and more urgent. Shots follow the gaze Joelwho remember the cities they went to, the men and women who once lived in them. The fields that fed entire nations have now turned into impenetrable grass and ghostly loneliness.
For Ellie, the last few miles of the journey are even harder. After all, the girl had just found out what the survivors were capable of. What world is to be saved? What awaits after the alleged child prodigy? Last of us he moves between the defeat of all ideals and the devastation he leaves behind. Joel, consumed by guilt and questions, doesn’t stop. The girl next to him doubts the meaning of everything she believed in before.
A journey full of learning ends
Much of the first section of the last chapter Last of us it’s a careful reflection on every lesson the characters have learned. The seasons passed, and after them they left a new life. Also, the obsession that change—both the completion of the mission and what it entails—is inevitable. Joel, bruised by years of silence, having lost all direction, now knows that the center of his life is Ellie.
Meanwhile, Ella realizes that what she knows is just remnants of a past that she cannot imagine. The moral duty to restore is an imperative. At the same time, it is a new concept of purpose. This idea completely transforms the character, makes him realize that his immunity is more than an accident. This is a case that suggested that this is a new look at what every surviving man and woman can expect.
Maybe that’s why it’s so hard to meet Joel And Ellie With Fireflies. In addition to honoring his obligations, it is a painful defeat in the midst of uncertainty. Betrayal and violence are much more brutal when they were never expected to come from those who were supposed to set in motion the mechanism of salvation. Joel he faces debacle, death, a sure blow to everything he expected to find after the winding path.
A new beginning for the main characters Last of us
Finally when he makes a decision that will change history Last of us — and who opens doors for its possible sequel — it doesn’t do so out of hatred. Not out of resentment, not out of cruelty learned from years of survival. He does this because he has no choice, his instinct to protect Ellie is superior to any other. The demands of what he has learned on the journey through his intimate history push him forward. They make him kill, run, run. Which suggests reconciliation with everything he aspired to.
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The same thing happens to a teenager who awakens – in many ways – from a deep sleep that now allows her to see the world renewed. Now without the obligation to bear the future remains shabby and dark. But the commitment to the cautious fate that awaits them both in Jackson belongs to them.
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