When looking for it on Google, Equinox, all you get is the explanation of a cryptic ending. What happened, why, what fate took the main characters, how the mystery of the Danish series, Netflix original production. If it’s over. Equinox, a television adaptation of an (almost) eponymous podcast, has raised questions and, to many, has not given an answer. But what should be of most interest, in approaching a series that, online, is entry of arrogance into the top ten of the most viewed titles, is the plot. A mystery, unfairly compared to the paradoxes of Dark and the Sottosopra di Stranger Things.
Equinox, in which although it seems to glimpse part of what has already been seen elsewhere, is the story of Astrid, a young mother who never managed to come to terms with her past. The woman, who over the years has changed cities and found a place in the world, has lost her older sister, Ida, in an accident whose dynamics no one has ever been able to clarify. Ida, an eighteen-year-old blonde, with good spirits and high hopes, dissolved into thin air with twenty classmates on the night she was supposed to graduate. The minibus he was traveling on overturned in the middle of a forest and only three boys survived. Of the others, all trace has been lost. No body, no sign of violence. What happened on graduation night, it was not possible to determine. And the survivors have not been able to tell.
Jakob, Amelia and Falke, Ida’s closest friends, had their lives saved, but lost all memory or trace of rationality. And, one by one, they went crazy. Only Jakob, in his last flash of lucidity, has decided to call Astrid, to confess what he has always kept silent: a disturbing story, where the actions of four children are dangerously intertwined with the dark power of the gods. Ida, together with her companions, would not have disappeared because of a man, but because of something bigger, immense. Supernatural creatures would have decided to put an end to existence as we know it, but Jakob’s words, through the telephone and the madness of man, arrived distorted. Fragments of apparently illogical speeches. So, Astrid, haunted all her life by terrible visions of a dark and foggy Upside Down, decided to leave for Copenhagen and there to reconstruct (or try to) what happened to Ida.
The result of the investigation, in which it seems to be possible to glimpse the rabbit of Donny Darko, the other world of Stranger Things and, as well, the complexity of Dark, is, instead, the narration – appropriately fictionalized – of an ancient legend, that of Ostara. A goddess who, with Netflix and her own productions, has very little to do. Ostara, among the eight pagan sabbats, is a deity of the Germanic cults, whose feast falls on the day of the Spring Equinox. Someone in the world still celebrates it. But in Italy, where Christianity has always been preponderant, little is known about its rites, fertility feasts, symbols that later resulted in the icons of Easter. Ostara is a name, and it means nothing. Ed Equinox, where history is the pretext to ask what would happen if the cult of Ostara were to prove real, it is the (playful) opportunity to relive the myth and, at the same time, that Germanic world that has been closed to us.
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