The ending for “17 Threads” by Sotiris Tsafoulias on Cosmote TV was painted with blood and the viewers made a statement about society through time.
A peaceful cobbler who transformed into a man full of hatred, a man who cut the threads of life from innocent people, among them women and children. Panos Vlachos, in one of the most important performances of his life, under the direction of Sotiris Tsafulia, wrote the finale for the “17 Threads” on Cosmote TV, showing us exactly how society creates killers.
17 Threads: Apotheosis for the finale on Twitter:
Antonis’ story did not end as a story of revenge, after all, that was not its purpose and neither could one feel justified by seeing a once innocent man slaughtering women and children. The story of Antonis is still relevant, showing us how the society that turns against a man, transforms him into a monster and arms his hands.
Panos Vlachos in “17 threads” falls into the trap and his happiness turns into a nightmare
In 2016, when Tsafulias created the film “Other Me” he asked the viewer the question: Do you prefer an unjust society or the chaos of self-righteousness?
With 17 Threads, Tsafulias brings society towards man through the dialogue between the two sisters Rosa and Anna.
“If the whole society has the right to turn against one man, why shouldn’t one man have the right to turn against the whole society”, asks Anna, Antonis’ former fiancee in the dialogue with her sister Rosa, and she answers her.
“So what do you suggest? Let everyone do whatever they want? Don’t you see how things have worked for centuries? People need taming or they become beasts.”
Antonis was wronged again and again and when society, even the priest of his village left him alone, alone in a house with his dead and decaying mother, he decided to right the wrong by cutting the threads of innocent people’s lives.
But wrong is not righted with wrong, as can be heard in the finale of the series, with Antonis not regretting any death and explaining:
“To my enemies I leave my music. My music, to dance and sing triumphantly over my corpse and curse me.
To those who lived, I leave them an unfair world and I apologize for not killing them.”
Antonis ended up in the prisons of Nafplion, became a hoodless executioner and escaped the barber’s razor in prison, no longer as Antonis but as “Captain 16”, a reference to the 16 lives he had taken. At the moment of his end, Antonis imagines the life he could have, married to Anna, with children, with his parents by his side, with what would have happened if he had not been wronged.
These last minutes, when you can’t help but think about the victims, but you think that this man was the first victim, who didn’t live his life the way he should have, who, while he never did harm to anyone, also wronged the thread of his own life cut off the wrong.
What Twitter wrote about the finale from “17 Threads”