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So if I asked you what is the spirit of the show, knowing all you know from watching it, what would it be?
To date, in general, we've thought of it as a love story between a good-looking guy and an "ugly" girl. Social implication being looks don't matter. That hunks can fall in love with ugly girls too. It's what's on the inside that counts, not the outside. It's a politically correct statement.
BUT I REALIZED THIS IS NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE SHOW, IT NEVER WAS.
It's about two people. Opposites in so many ways. Victims in so many ways of society, of other people's actions, of fate. They both need love, on a human level...they crave it. Yet in some ways, they've given up hope of it. Dutta is submerged in rage, hides behind his anger. Naku hides behind her makeup. You can't see them for who they really are -- beautiful characters that need love, but don't have it. Dutta does not believe in love, Naku feels it for the first time for him. She is able to see something noone else can. And he can see something in Naku noone else can.
I think the show is about two people's lives colliding--of their mistakes, of learning to love, and of redemption from love. The story itself takes place in a refreshingly new context -- Don, maid--with wonderful action scenes, simplistic but surprising developments devoid of unnecessary hyperbole and bull🤬.
But at its core--it is not an equal opportunity or political statement about ugly vs. beautiful, powerful vs. defenseless, though it does address these. It's an exquisite love story and a story of redemption, of changing because of love.
What do you guys think?
To date, in general, we've thought of it as a love story between a good-looking guy and an "ugly" girl. Social implication being looks don't matter. That hunks can fall in love with ugly girls too. It's what's on the inside that counts, not the outside. It's a politically correct statement.
BUT I REALIZED THIS IS NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE SHOW, IT NEVER WAS.
It's about two people. Opposites in so many ways. Victims in so many ways of society, of other people's actions, of fate. They both need love, on a human level...they crave it. Yet in some ways, they've given up hope of it. Dutta is submerged in rage, hides behind his anger. Naku hides behind her makeup. You can't see them for who they really are -- beautiful characters that need love, but don't have it. Dutta does not believe in love, Naku feels it for the first time for him. She is able to see something noone else can. And he can see something in Naku noone else can.
I think the show is about two people's lives colliding--of their mistakes, of learning to love, and of redemption from love. The story itself takes place in a refreshingly new context -- Don, maid--with wonderful action scenes, simplistic but surprising developments devoid of unnecessary hyperbole and bull🤬.
But at its core--it is not an equal opportunity or political statement about ugly vs. beautiful, powerful vs. defenseless, though it does address these. It's an exquisite love story and a story of redemption, of changing because of love.
What do you guys think?
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