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Black Island(Schwarze Insel) Ending Explained- Hell Hath No Fury And Toxic Men

Netflix’s latest German addition is Black Island. This mysterious thriller starts as the best of their mind-bending sci-fi and finishes with a surprisingly normal but no less satisfying conclusion. The age-old story of rigid toxic men and the women who they scorn is used to good effect. Those expecting another Dark will be unhappy but give the moody Black Island a chance. It is sexy, dark, and deliciously revenge-filled. Here’s everything you need to know about the latest puzzler. Blending elements of steamy noirs and enigmatic dramas, Black Island is a little of a lot of different things. The final result is an old-fashioned tale of revenge and guilty pleasures.

The film begins with an older woman attacked and killed by a large dog on the beach of a small island town. We quickly learn this woman is our protagonist, Jonas’s grandmother. A few months later, we see a flashback to a car accident that kills both Jonas’s mother and father. This leaves just Jonas and his grandfather, who do not get along all that well. Jonas’ grandfather is a strict, pessimistic older man who cares very little for anyone else’s opinion. He is an iron-fisted guardian who constantly belittles Jonas. Jonas is a sweet kid with a burgeoning romance with Nina before a beautiful new teacher comes to town. The new teacher at Jonas’s school is Helena Jung. Jonas and Helen begin an affair that has tragic results as ghosts from the past influence the future.

Who was Helen Jung?

Contrary to all the misdirects throughout, Helena Jung and Maria Roth are not the same person. They are actually mother and daughter. Maria was having an affair with Jonas’s father Friedrich and became pregnant with Helena in the late ’80s. Friederich was the principal of the school Jonas now attends. When Maria told Friedrich about the baby, he refused to leave his wife and shunned her.

Furthermore, he asked her to leave Black Island with Helena and never return. She refused, and for four years,

she kept thinking Friedrich would leave his wife and return to her. He never did and denied Helena. Maria eventually committed suicide in the ocean. She left Helena alone, afraid, and very angry with nothing but a note to explain why she killed herself. Helena shares an uncanny resemblance to her mother, but she is not the same person, and there is no supernatural component.

Helena came to town and began a killing spree to ensure she could destroy Friedrich’s life. She orchestrates a freak accident that injures a teacher at Jonas’s school to allow her to substitute for the healing teacher. That inroad gives her the chance to get close to Jonas. She isn’t a time-traveler or a doppelganger. Helena is just a very bitter woman who blames Friedrich for her mother’s death and everything that has happened to her subsequently.

The ending of Black Island

The end begins when Nina, who is Jonas’s current girlfriend. She suspects Helena and Maria are the same person because of a strange reaction Friedrich has at a ceremony when he sees Helena. Even though she was wrong about that, she was right about enough to place her in danger. Helena caught her looking at a yearbook from the ’80s and finding a picture of Maria. As a result, Helena killed Nina and dumped her body in the ocean, where it was found a few days later. The shock of her death caused Friedrich to have a stroke which left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak.

Everything Helena had done up to this point was to torture Friedrich for her mother’s death and his refusal to accept her. She sent the dog to attack Jonas’s grandmother, she was driving the car that caused Jonas’s parent’s death, and she intended on killing Jonas as well. Her goal was to destroy everything Friedrich ever cared about. She toyed with Jonas to get close to the family, but she ultimately did not care for the boy.

In the end, she had Friedrich released home so he could watch her drug and kill his grandson. At the last minute, Jonas regained control enough to escape the pond and stab her with a piece of glass. Helena’s sole motivation was to make Friedrich suffer. She wanted him to know he was the reason all his family was dead, and it all could have been prevented if only he had accepted her. Just before the film ends, as Jonas is leaving Black Island on a ferry, he sees a woman in a yellow rain jacket, which is another eerie call back to Dark.

The woman in the coat is not Helena but a young woman who is looking at a map. The map shows several islands, including Black Island, which has been colored black with a marker. The woman wonders why the island is black when none of the others were colored. In all likelihood, Helena colored the map on her trip to the island. She thought Friedrich and his selfish ways tainted the entire island. Jonas seems to, to some extent, agree as he is leaving the island and his grandfather behind as well. Where Jonas is going from there is anyone’s guess, but he is leaving the island and his grandfather behind.

Unlike The Night House, which wants the viewer to run through a gamut of possible resolutions, Black Island steers you directly into the paranormal world only to pull the curtain back and reveal a tragic, if common, story. Friedrich was a user who may have been in love with Maria, but not enough to blow up his life for her. The scandal would have been too embarrassing for the prideful man, so he denied his affair and refused to acknowledge Helena. Left with nothing but her mother’s suicide note, Helena grew up fostering a deep-seeded resentment towards Friedrich. Her desire for vengeance was more important than anything else, and ironically Friedrich was responsible for both women’s life. Black Island is on Netflix right now.