{"id":596369,"date":"2023-11-01T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-netflix-adaptation-falls-flat\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:15:00","slug":"watch-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-netflix-adaptation-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-netflix-adaptation-falls-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;All the Light We Cannot See&#8217; Review: Netflix Adaptation Falls Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30f88d5dec7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30f88d5dec7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-netflix-adaptation-falls-flat\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98All_the_Light_We_Cannot_See_Review_Netflix_Adaptation_Falls_Flat%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;All the Light We Cannot See&#8217; Review: Netflix Adaptation Falls Flat&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-netflix-adaptation-falls-flat\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98All_the_Light_We_Cannot_See_Review_Netflix_Adaptation_Falls_Flat%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;All the Light We Cannot See&#8217; Review: Netflix Adaptation Falls Flat&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98All_the_Light_We_Cannot_See_Review_Netflix_Adaptation_Falls_Flat%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;All the Light We Cannot See&#8217; Review: Netflix Adaptation Falls Flat&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98All_the_Light_We_Cannot_See_Review_Netflix_Adaptation_Falls_Flat%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;All the Light We Cannot See&#8217; Review: Netflix Adaptation Falls Flat&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d is not, in the strictest sense, a comfort watch. Like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthony Doerr novel on which it\u2019s based, the four-episode limited <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> takes place in a walled city under siege by a bombing campaign, its tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed civilians unable to evacuate \u2014\u00a0hardly a relaxing break from today\u2019s headlines. But the Netflix show is, in a way, a return to simpler times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This particular walled city is located in Nazi-occupied France, on the verge of American liberation in August 1944. As written, \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d is already set amid a conflict that\u2019s far closer to good versus evil than most armed struggles. (This is one explanation for the enduring popularity of World War II stories, even as the period slowly passes from living memory.) As adapted by screenwriter Steven Knight (\u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d) and director Shawn Levy (\u201cStranger Things,\u201d \u201cFree Guy\u201d), the series leans into sentiment and moral simplicity. Knight and Levy aim for an uplifting, inspirational tale of connection that transcends division, distance and prejudice, but instead deliver a flat, jumbled story that lacks the desired effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Most of \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d unfolds in the story\u2019s present tense, as residents of the Bretonese town of Saint-Malo await the imminent arrival of American forces. Marie (Aria Mia Loberti), a young blind woman, sends illicit radio broadcasts from her attic; Werner (Louis Hofmann), a German soldier and radio tech, listens rapt until his superiors order him to track Marie down. But sporadic flashbacks tell us how each character found themselves in the seaside hamlet. Marie and her father Daniel (Mark Ruffalo), a locksmith at a museum, fled Paris to seek shelter with her great uncle Etienne (Hugh Laurie) \u2014\u00a0and hide a potentially cursed diamond called the Sea of Flames that Daniel smuggled out of his workplace. Werner grew up in an orphanage, listening to scientific lectures on the same radio frequency where Marie now reads excerpts of Jules Verne\u2019s \u201c20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.\u201d His skill with radio earned Werner a place in an elite Nazi training school, separating him from his sister Jutta (Luna Wedler).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s a romantic tone to this story that borders on fairy tale-like fantasy, with Marie locked in an attic \u00e1 la Rapunzel and a wicked jeweler-turned-Gestapo-officer (Lars Eidinger) on the hunt for a magical gem. \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d can seem arbitrary in where it chooses to impose realism on this quasi-mythical story of two soulmates quite literally on the same wavelength. Both Loberti and Nell Sutton, the actor who plays Marie as a child, are visually impaired, a casting strategy Levy has championed for both \u201crepresentation\u201d <em>and <\/em>\u201cauthenticity.\u201d Much of the series was also filmed on location in France. On the other hand, the dialogue is entirely in English; the French characters sound British, while the German ones have a noticeable accent while never actually speaking German (though they\u2019re played by German actors). It\u2019s a bizarre choice coming from Netflix, a platform that\u2019s now synonymous with international hits that transcend borders and language barriers. An English-language show allows the participation of recognizable stars like Ruffalo and Laurie \u2014\u00a0but no \u201cSquid <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>\u201d actor was widely known outside South Korea before that show became a record-breaking smash. A more comparable success might be \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front,\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Netflix\u2019s\u00a0German war film that became a major Oscar contender last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The confusion only compounds in how Knight has chosen to structure the story. To be fair, chronology is the greatest challenge in adapting \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See,\u201d which hopscotches through time as Werner and Marie reflect on their lives in a moment of acute peril. Yet the show rushes some reveals before it\u2019s had time to build up any suspense, and clumsily explains what it\u2019s about to more effectively show. Etienne, for example, is traumatized by World War I and has spent decades holed up in his house, communicating with the outside world only through his radio. Before we even learn this, though, we\u2019ve already seen him running around Saint-Malo as an agent of the French Resistance. This creates some tension around how the recluse got from Point A to Point B, but kills any catharsis when he finally resolves to go outside. For his part, Werner doesn\u2019t just mention his harrowing time at school; he describes it in detail before several scenes set there make the description redundant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A more substantial change is in how \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d depicts, or doesn\u2019t, the nuance of growing up in a fascist state. The symbolism of Marie\u2019s condition is straightforward and left largely intact from the book: she\u2019s both part of a population threatened by Nazi ideas of genetic purity and in tune with deeper truths than skin-deep appearance. But Werner has a more complex journey marked by moral, rather than physical, challenge. In Doerr\u2019s telling, the German boy is conscious of the gains in quality of life the Nazi regime initially brought, and is excited to escape the coal mines of his hometown for a better opportunity. It\u2019s only gradually, and through the access to other cultures and ideas the radio affords, that Werner unlearns the state propaganda he\u2019s been steeped in for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On television, however, that inner evolution becomes external stasis. Werner is always pure and decent, while every Nazi adult he encounters is a menacing cartoon. (<em>This <\/em>evil, at least, is never banal.) \u201cI have done bad things,\u201d he admits as an adult, but we never witness any or hear them outlined in detail. Even Werner\u2019s earliest brushes with the authorities happen under extreme duress; a Third Reich official demands he fix a radio at gunpoint, a successful effort that gets him shipped off to school. Because Werner isn\u2019t under the Nazis\u2019 sway to begin with, he never experiences an epiphany about the humanity of others \u2014\u00a0itself a clich\u00e9, but at least one that involves dynamic characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This doesn\u2019t mean \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d is wary of clich\u00e9 elsewhere. Nazis \u201chate anyone who\u2019s different,\u201d Marie helpfully points out; \u201cI will <em>never <\/em>give up hope,\u201d another character vows. Such stirring rhetoric fails to make an impact. At four hours, \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d is just barely longer than the feature film it nearly became when producer Scott Rudin first optioned the rights. A more extended story may have enriched its protagonists beyond figureheads for innocence, integrity or loving parenthood. In its current form, \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d calls on viewers to acknowledge the complex humanity of others while failing to depict much itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>All four episodes of \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d will premiere on Netflix on Nov. 2.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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