Several shows, if any, sometimes reached the level of "real detective" season. As ordinary, as it became to quote this season on television, as one of the best made, it does not change the fact that writer Nick Pizolato, director Carrie Yogy Fukunaga, and Starswells Matthews and Matthews. Leaving the incredible depth contained in writing the show, its historical and literary influences, and the highest performances, one of the most durable contributions of Season 1 in pop culture remains the term "time is a flat circle". But what does this mean?

At this point, the phrase is mixed to the point that it has lost most of its meaning. You will probably see some version of the words used at all times, a cultural event appears that is vaguely reminiscent of a past event. But there was much more meaning behind it in the "real detective" season 1, which contained a noticeable physical representation of the phrase in the widespread spiral symbol. The cryptic motive is first seen tattooed on the back of the victim of the murder Dora Lange, still in the cockpit of season 1., but also climbed during that initial season before returning In "Real Detective: Night Land", in which the spiral seemed to be given the origin When Foster's Chief of Ododi, Liz Danvers and Cali Reis soldier, Evangelin Navarro, a witness of ancient bever suspended in the Alaska Tundra. More important for our purposes, Rust witnessed a spiral motif in numerous visions of post-medication dependence during season 1, experiencing a hallucinatory manifestation of his now known quote.

With all this conversations about mortal cults and foretelling visions of eternity, it may be something that this business "time is a flat circle" is not so optimistic, but it really depends on how you perceive the basic ideas. Here's all you need to know what the expression "time is a flat circle" means.

Nick Pizolato pulled out of the exhaustive list of sources when creating a "real detective", from the horror of the author Thomas Ligoti to the story of Robert W. short stories. Chambers in 1895 "King in Yellow". He also pulled out of philosophy, especially when it comes to the detective of Matthew McConaughey, Rustin Cole. During Season 1, the character delivered several philosophical monologues who reveal alleged nihilism - the one who is encouraged in the final moments of the show when Kochle has uttered an optimistic last line, which was later tested in a "real detective: night country".

During one of these monologues we get the line "The time is a flat circle". At least, this is where most viewers will remember the phrase as they come. In fact, for the first time he was spoken by Reggie Ledux (Charles Halford), Meta -Dealer and children's abuser, killed by Marty Hart at Woody Harrelson during the retrospective in episode 5, "The Secret Destiny of All Life". Once he was caught, Reggie - who was killed in one of the most brutal scenes with firearms - Says, "I know what will happen next. This do this again. The time is a flat circle," what rust is fit "what is it, Nietzsche?" This is, in fact, a referral to the concept of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche for eternal repetition, which appears during his work, but may have been the highest explained in "The Gay/Gay Science" in 1882 in a section entitled "Aphorism 341", "The Greatest Weight":

"What, if some day or night is a demon were to steal after you into your Loneliest Loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live and have lived it, you will have to live once More and Innumerable Times More; NEOTHING NEW IN IT, But Everything and Every Joy and EVERY THOUGHT AND SIGH AND EVERYHING Unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the Same Succession and Sequence Between the trees, and also this moment too.

In this passage, the concept of eternal repetition of Nietzsche is presented as a kind of thinking experiment, and your interpretation dictates whether it is soothing or disturbing.

If you knew you were obliged to repeat your life exactly as you would have experienced, with all the pain that came with it, would you "curse the demon that spoke so" or claims that "he never heard more divine?" Does such an idea excite you or upset? The question is designed to encourage thinking about life and its meaning. In a "real detective", we see that two different views appear.

Reggie Ledux is thrilled by the possibility of eternal repetition because it means that his evil acts will literally be repeated whether or not Rust and Marty catch him. Rust, meanwhile, is upset by the idea that within this concept of eternal repetition, he can never save the children who hold them captured by Ledux. As the detective says later in the season, "this is a world where nothing has been resolved. Someone once told me" The time is a flat circle ". Everything we have ever done, or we will do, we will do it over and over. The highest takeover of Nietzsche's idea is not exactly. Here, there is no real upside down. The antagonist is thrilled because he will forever perform his horrible works, and the protagonist is upset by the same fact. No one is exalted by the idea that their lives will be infinitely repeated. But as the season lasts, a more optimistic view appears.

At the very end of Season 1 "Real Detective" (which started life as a novel and stage play)Rust looks at the sky filled with starves and says, "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the victory of light." At this point, EDAD Detective of McConaughey seems to accept a more positive view of existence. Eternal repetition does not just mean repeating the pain. This means that the things you love will also always be there forever, like a bright starvet in the night sky.

In "Real Detective", "Time is a flat circle" is not just a referral to an experiment on philosophical thought. Rust Cohle gives us the simplest explanation for his view late in the season, during the famous scene where the beer spraying can make his point (although he does not actually say the phrase "time is a flat circle" during this scene). "In this universe we cultivate time linearly, forward," he says, continuing:

"But out of our space, from what would be the fourth-dimensional perspective, time would not exist, and from that look-we could achieve-we will see our appearance of space, as a flattened, as the only sculpture, with the matter in the superposition. Every place that ever occupies it."

Here, rust literally talks about the time to be a flat circle when viewed from an eternal perspective. This is where quantum mechanics enters. Without getting too far away in the theory of atomic and subatomic particles, this idea of "superposition" is important, as Rust's thinking explains. In quantum theory, the superposition refers to a condition in which a particle is theoretically in many different states at once. You may have heard of the same concept as it relates to the quantum calculation, which can be slightly 1 and 0 at a time. In conceiving Rust, time as seen from a 4-dimensional perspective is effective in one of these superpositions, because it is all determined before you in a literal, non-linear circle of time. In this nonlinear view, there is no beginning or end; Time is only there to look at superposition. Why is such a concept included in the show? Well, Nick Pizolato talked about this during the discussion of Image Forum. After explaining the quantum aspect of "Time is a flat circle", the creator of the show said: "Why did it get into this show, it was the same way really almost something in this show: because it was okay to think that."

Aside from Featuring a few "flat circle" Easter eggs And the general work of the topic of eternal repetition in her iconography, the "real detective" season 1 is, by itself, demonstrating the concept of flat circle. Time has been seen from the four -dimensional perspective, talking about rust. It is no coincidence that season 1 jumps between three separate times in the life of the characters: 1995, 2002 and 2012. These characters experienced those times linearly, one after the other. But we as viewers are not only witnessing them in the sense of the show to reduce and back between them, but we can go back and reproduce the season when we want, no matter how many times we want.

In that sense, Pizolato shames the time in a season on television, and when Rust says: "Everything we have ever done, or we will do, we will do over and over," it is not just paraphrasing of philosophical theory, it is actually in a target. Welle Reveal the "real detective" season 1 many times, and everything he and his colleagues do, they will do it again. As he put Pizolato himself during his Image Forum Chat:

"Isn't he a character who complains that he is a character on the TV show? He lives when someone sees his story and has nothing to do to change it. And we stand out of his dimension, and it looks flattened for us."

In this way, the 1 "real detective" season is the best explanation for the concept of time to be a flat circle. It's always there, waiting for our next redirection. There is no beginning or end, it only exists in full. As such, did I "cursed the demon who spoke so?" Well, if you spent too much time on the internet, listening to the season 1 fanboys who complain of a "night country", then yes, you probably do it. However, for most of us, being able to rethink this modern classic is a blessing, and in that sense, just the fact that "the real detective" There is Answer the question posed by the aphorism of Nietzsche 341 demon with an unusually positive look.