Warning, this article contains spoilers for the Netflix series finale.
This is the Netflix series everyone is talking about. In All the Light We Cannot See, the audience follows over a decade the intertwined destinies of two protagonists whose lives are turned upside down by World War II: Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a young blind French woman sheltering her uncle, and Werner Pfennig, a German teenager. , who was a true genius in radio broadcasting. Through a shared secret bond, they regain faith in humanity and see a glimmer of hope.
It’s an adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s novel of the same name, a 500-page gem that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. Stephen Knight, the project’s screenwriter, chose to make some changes to fit his story into 4 episodes (instead of the originally planned 6). As a result, and since there won’t be a second season, we don’t know how these two heroes end up, and the fates of other characters have changed drastically.
From book to series: every character has a different ending
In the latest episode of All the Light We Cannot See, Werner (Louis Hoffman) helps Marie (Aria Mia Lobert) get rid of Von Rumpel (Lars Eidinger). The duo then share a tender kiss (much like a can of peaches in syrup) before the German officer surrenders to the American army. They promise to meet again.
In the book, Werner is captured by the army before being taken to prison. He will eventually get sick. One evening, when he had a fever and was leaving the hospital, he stepped on a mine and died on the spot. That’s why he will never see Marie again.
As for the latter, he leaves Saint-Malo after catastrophic events. But not only. In the novel, Etienne (played by Hugh Laurie) does not die in the bakery explosion. He was arrested by the Gestapo a few days before the bombings, not far from Saint-Malo. After liberating the city, he finds his niece and they settle together in Paris. He died at the age of 82 after a peaceful end to his life.
Upon arrival in the capital, a long search begins to find out what happened to Daniel (played by Mark Ruffalo), Marie’s father. While in the series he is tortured and killed by Von Rumpel, in the Anthony Doerr novel he is sent to a concentration camp where he contracts the flu. Her daughter does not know when and how she died.
At the end of the novel, Marie is in 2014, walking with her grandson through the streets of the capital…
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