Ellie managed to save the life of joel, but still has to face the uncertainty of his recovery. Again, the series The Last of Us, from HBO and available on HBO Max, makes the decision to show the scenes of destruction from emotional depth. The teenager, whose context was detailed in the previous episode, which showed the origin of her strength, tries to cope with loneliness and fear.
He does it in the self-sufficient way that orphanhood and the atrocious reality in which he grew up have taught him. During the first scenes of the penultimate chapter of her, The Last of Us explore again in the idea of those who were born behind the walls of Phaedra. Of the hardened young people who do not know how to do anything but follow, through any circumstance.
Outside the house where Joel rests, Ellie hunt, watch and watch. In silence, with the snow turned into an endless and lonely wasteland, but frightened by her helplessness, which contrasts with the determination of a character forged in the day-to-day violence. The plot bases its effectiveness on its characters and the multiple nuances they show. Specifically, it seeks to understand them in their most vulnerable traits and encompass what defines them in the midst of a progressively dangerous and potentially lethal journey.
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The threat in The Last of Us hides among those who stretch out their hands
But in the penultimate episode of The Last of Us It is also chosen to reflect that not all the stories of the survivors are exalting or dramatic. In a spooky twist, it also explores the evil of a devastated culture without rules. What ideas survive in the midst of a total catastrophe? Gradually, the series reflects on totalitarianism struggling to salvage the rubble and subversion facing the fist of oppression. Even in a place like Jackson, insular and far from both.
On this occasion, monstrosity masquerades as belief. Of the need to cling to a failed hope, after two decades of devastation. All Ellie knows is the apocalypse and its aftermath. But for those who managed to avoid dying from the contagion, the world is a memory that can turn destructive. In addition to the ideal excuse for the worst actions.
Think about who you trust
So far, the story has focused his interest on survival. Whether it was showing life within the forty zones or in small stories like that of nick and Frank. Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s ability to recount the apocalypse without resorting to irrationality is moving. However, the production never forgets that the limits of cruelty in a world in ruins are blurred, often deadly traps. A lesson that this chapter of The Last of Us analyzes with chilling harshness.
Director Ali Abbasi turns winter and the long expanses of virgin snow into a stage for deception. The camera becomes the attentive observer of a threatening tranquility. What is hidden between the petrified trees and the shining white? The question is repeated in the background of the story as a tense subtext. Spaces dwarf EllieThey show their frustration. Craig Mazin’s script devotes, on this occasion, particular attention to mistrust.
Little by little, he builds a stifling atmosphere, the feeling that every false step leads to death. Something that shows in her way of narrating the confusing decisions that the teenager makes. It is no longer about the girl that Joel protects and guides, the little hope among the ruins, but about a victim. A nuance that makes this chapter of The Last of Us a succession of human horrors.
When the character stumbles upon a group of strangers, the confusion of fear forces her to make a decision. In Jackson, Maria He already warned you about betrayals. The risk they pose and the door open they leave for all kinds of violence, even worse than the bite of contagion. Ellieafter weeks of isolation and convinced that the true monsters are those born from the Cordyceps, trust. Which leads her to, perhaps, the worst situation in her life.
The man as executioner in The Last of Us
If the eighth episode of The Last of Us is that society will always find a way to show its most perverse side. Although he also meditates carefully on how man can become his own worst enemy.
Ellie he will witness the dark reverse of everything he has known up to now. Beyond the military order in which he grew up, the angry crowds of Kansas City and the placidity of Jackson, there are other places. Like this cabin in which a group of survivors have absolute power over its inhabitants, hostages of a twisted and sick faith.
The girl will have to fight for her life. But, at the same time, for the integrity of her body, a dilemma that until now had never been presented to her. The brutality of her being subdued, violated and destroyed by those who greeted her with smiles and encouraged her to stay with them.
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When joel comes to your rescue Ellie it is not the same. He understands it that way and the argument of The Last of Us shows him in a heartbreaking scene that comes straight from the video game. In it live action, suffering translates into a long hug between helpless. In a final look at a house that burns in the middle of the deserted plains. The last stop before moving on to the promise of healing and the possibility of a world other than the one that is falling apart around you.