“Lots of readers come to me and say, ‘I had an expectation.
I was disappointed at how brief their time was,'” he tells EW.
An epilogue then shows the future for some of these characters.
Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure LeBlanc in ‘All the Light We Cannot See’.Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix
Usually, I would use verisimilitude as my defense for what happens in the book."
“There’s a feeling of resolution.
What’s wrong with that?”
Louis Hofmann as Werner Pfennig in ‘All the Light We Cannot See’.Doane Gregory/Netflix
“People want a feeling of resolution.”
As they get closer together, they even share a kiss.
“It’s an expression of that connection that feels like destiny come to fruition.”
Anthony Doerr, Shawn Levy, and Steven Knight.Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
It has to stay in.
There is a historic avoidance of those experiences in how the blind are represented.’
“The music is so important all the way through the story.
The music is the thing that unites them.
When you hear music, what do you?
And when you dance, what do you do?
That’s the point of the book and the point that we want to tell.”
He means it literally in some ways.
“How much electromagnetic communication is swirling through us,” he notes specifically.
“There are text messages passing through our bodies right now.”
Knight says he did once consider tackling the epilogue portions of the novel in the show.
As he mentions, “It costs you nothing to go there and try it.”
However, “I tend to let the page decide,” he adds.
“You try it and you feel that it’s not right.
It wasn’t really true to the moment.”
“In her reaction, we see that there is hope for the future,” the writer says.
In his own way, Levy does give viewers a glimpse of the future.
“I wept to see that historical footage,” Doerr admits of watching the credits roll.
“It’s this melding of imagination and research that somehow fuels my favorite pieces of art.”
There will undoubtedly be viewers of the show who have their own contrary feelings to the ending.
Levy just emphasizes that he’s coming from a fan perspective.
“It’s not me trying to service some fan idea of this beloved novel.
It’s me as a fan trying to do right by this magnificent novel,” he says.
It’s an object.
It’s going to be there long after we’ve gone.
We were invited to make a painting of it.
We’re not saying thisisthe mountain.
We’re not saying this replaces the mountain.
We’re saying this is an interpretation of it in a different medium.
All the Light We Cannot Seeis streaming on Netflix.
