Tear Along The Dotted Line: Ending Explanation Of The Zerocalcare Series Finale
Not even two weeks have passed since the release on Netflix of what, at times, seems to be one of the greatest serial masterpieces on the Italian scene, given the almost unanimous reception of audiences and critics. We are obviously talking about Tear Along the Dotted Line of Zerocalcare, whose ending touches introspective depths not just.
He recorded record numbers Tear Along the Dotted Line, the first Netflix series by Zerocalcare and one of his most structured works outside, of course, of primary comic production. The very short miniseries of six episodes only, for a total duration of an hour and a half of reproduction, was able to entertain, tear laughter to tears, but also tears only (and many) touching strings that concern the self confidence of an entire generation. So much so that many are hoping for the second season of Tear along the edges.
Tear Along the Dotted Line: Ending Explanation
It premiered at the Rome Film Fest with two episodes that seem aimed only at the most hilarious comedy, then revealed a (very gradual) emotional process and personal introspection – for Zerocalcare and its spectators – at the center of which there is a dramatic an event that really happened in the cartoonist’s life. The whole series is configured as a retrospective story that tries to dilute the times of this journey – not only in the soul, but also towards a specific destination – so that the destination arrives as late as possible.
Warning, spoilers: this is because the destination is the funeral of Alice, a friend of Zero, Secco and Sarah who took her own life after seeing her dreams of fulfillment broken and being forced to return home to her parents’ village of birth. The story of Alice, like that of Zero, is a story of failures: or rather, of how society and our insecurities and paranoia lead us to feel like failures, taking on all the weight and responsibility of living, not only ours but also of others.
In part it was already clear from the reasons for the strange dubbing of Tear Along the Dotted Line above all that of Alice with her robotic voice, to represent the emotional detachment excavated by Zero – closed like a hedgehog – towards him. And when, in fact, the characters of Sarah and Secco regain their real voices again, the sense of the narrative operation becomes clear: that of Zero was a narration all lived in his head, on the way in which he introjected that experience and the judgments. others, actually non-existent. “Don’t you remember? You’re just a blade of grass”: Sarah repeats this to him, to whom Zero finally grants the benefit of a (real) listening. In short, we are faced with an incredible series Comics related to Tear Along the Dotted Line. Have you seen it? Tell us in the comments!
