Dark Souls 3 is Thinking of Ending Things

Summary by Krater

This video compares the thematic structures of the video game Dark Souls III and Charlie Kaufman's film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, concluding that both works explore the anxiety of a dying world facing inevitable collapse and finality.

From the video

Answers: What are the thematic similarities between Dark Souls III and I'm Thinking of Ending Things?

• Dark Souls III lore and themes
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things film analysis
• Comparison of Dark Souls III and I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• Existentialism in media
• The Age of Fire in Dark Souls

What it concludes

• Dark Souls III and I'm Thinking of Ending Things both share a thematic focus on entropy, the decay of past memories, and the anxiety of an ending world.
• Dark Souls III acts as the entropy of its own series, pulling in past characters, names, and locations into a repetitive and exhausted cycle.
• The ending of Dark Souls III represents the inevitable final collapse of a world built upon endless cycles of fire.