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Into The Night Review: Star Cast: Pauline Etienne, Laurent Capelluto, Stefano Cassetti, Mehmet Kurtulus, Babetida Sadjo, Jan Bijvoet, Ksawery Szlenkier, Vincent Londez, Regina Bikkinina, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Nabil Mallat, Yassine Fadel, Chris TDL, James McElvar
Director: Inti Calfat, Dirk Verheye
Creator: Jason George
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Streaming On: Netflix
Into The Night Review: What’s It About? And How’s The Screenplay?
Sun and its position in our solar system are one of the biggest reasons that life on Earth exists. Start counting on fingers, the number of tasks in day to day life for which we use sun’s light and energy and I am sure you’ll have a tough time. But what if that very sun becomes your enemy and sun rays start taking each and everyone’s life on earth without any exception?
Into The Night takes you on a ride in which you live the fear which you must not have thought about even in your worst nightmares.
Sylvie (a former helicopter pilot in the Air Force), Ayaz (a Turkish businessman), Ines (a social media influencer), Laura (a home-care nurse), Jakub (a mechanic), Rik (a security guard), Zara (a lady with his sick son Dominik), Horst (a climate scientist), Osman (airport staff) board a flight to Moscow. That’s when Terenzio (an Italian NATO officer) hijacks the flight and asks the pilot Mathieu to move towards the West instead of Moscow. Why? Because Sun has gone rogue and is killing the people all over the world.
The only way to save the remaining lives now is to move towards the west until they reach a safe bunker.
After initial resistance, all the passengers come together to find a way out of this apocalypse but they have to survive some unimaginable series of challenges.
Looks interesting, right? But hold your breath because it’s the screenplay which gives you a high of another level as a viewer.
Jusan George‘s screenplay is taut and is filled with so many twists and turns that it never lets you take an easy breath. The Belgian show based on Polish science fiction writer Jacek Dukaj‘s 2015 digital novel The Old Axoloti consists of 6 episodes and each of them’s duration is less than 40 mins.
The premise of the show is super interesting but the way it has been narrated keeps you hooked throughout. The challenges one after another not just make you keep on biting your nails but also make you feel like all of this is happening for real. Moving through the night from one place to another in a way that sun’s rays never fall on you is something never thought before.
The way the show proceeds makes you think if there can be really a day when you’ll have to look for the darkness instead of light? Watching passengers, pilot, and everyone while they chase darkness makes you feel how desperate humans can be for life even when they know that everyone they love no more exists in the world.
That reminds me of a popular sher from a Pakistani song, “din pareshaan hai raat bhaari hai, zindagi hai ke phir bhi pyaari hai”
