We read books and watch movies for closure. Deadlocked in Time forces us to ask: Is closure actually a relief? Or is the "The End" screen actually the beginning of an endless void? The story suggests that true finality is terrifying. To be "finished" is to be static, and to be static is to be, in a sense, dead.
The gears that once ground the world to a halt have finally settled into silence. The static has cleared, the echoes have faded, and the hands of the clock have moved past the midnight they were trapped in for an eternity. Deadlocked in Time -Finished- - Version- Final