7/10
Liife in abstract
14 November 2022
As comedy, there are many hilarious moments. But the male lead lives life in the abstract, he speaks about himself in a manner that contradictshis actions too often. Female lead is his wake-up call. This is seemingly a tale that reinforces the idea that relationships between people of different classes are doomed to fail. But in reality, it is about an initial relationship where only one person is putting in effort to no avail and the viability of the relationship is only real in the characters ' imagination. One person with rules but no effort, and one with all effort but no sight (whether insight, vision, critical thinking) = good grounds for abuse or divorce. All head without brain is a trait of the experts who govern today's world and too many university or college graduates.

Inasmuch as this is a carbon copy when it comes to plot development in many k-dramas, it is developed directorially and edited in a manner where the lack of a kiss is not a deficiency. Reggae boy and Frizzle Head were masterful in their roles. (When someone in Barbados tells you that your head look like a frizzle fowl, it means it is unkempt and needs at least a good combing\brushing and styling.)

The dreams or imaginative detours were full of hilarity and the one in the last fight scene was epic. Absolutely hilarious. Moreover, the first and last episodes were not boring or stupid or filled with flashbacks because artistic creators lost their way and gave up.

The male lead begins with living life in the abstract: where one is seemingly attached to many things but in reality, so detached that one questions the value of formal education. One of the themes is love between classes. That is how it is framed. However, when one examines the art within the frame one sees the real truth. One partner holds all of the power, makes the rules and is the epicenter of the other's universe. The other, in its orbit around its sun lives in an imaginary realm of intimacy and value. Both see the relationship as viable, but imaginary viability is of no value and leads to abuse and divorce. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the delusions abundant in our modern world, where education, liberation and secularism mask the puzzles of humanity: how do you identify, and separate affection created and fueled by the imagination from that which is genuine and experienced by two people. A solitary framing of any relationship will hurt the one who imagines best and invests the most.

A lot of confusion surrounding the experience of love lies in an unidentifiable plane where things created by emotion, chemical reaction and deep longing generate an individual experience often so intense and enduring that the one will never deny its 'reality'. One of the most amazing conundrums of human life is the fact that education highlights logic as superior but the imagination is the bigger bread winner and the place where isms, schisms and fallacy (lies) engineer categories and distinctions.

Two of the greatest such fallacies are racism and survival of the fittest. Racism is rooted in the idea that difference means superior or inferior. Science, religion and political action in the minds of the creator created a monster that education or science today can only chip away at but is powerless to destroy. Survival of the fittest is based on the idea that that which exists in the animal kingdom automatically applies to mankind. Mirroring. While proven among animals, and related mainly to reproduction, it is an assumption upon which a whole lot of human social ideology is rooted in. Inequalities, both real and manufactured, are the scaffolding, whereas the presumption of the infallible teacher, -instructor, mother, religious leader- reinforces ignorance as fact.

So we are faced with the dilemma where our smart technology is not foolproof because our prejudices, blind spots, imperfect knowledge is built into it but called smart. So, we see assumption framing fact. Modern science. Covid response and conspiracy are the first unfunded but international laboratory trial of how smart we are even with our gadgets. It is both horrifying and hilarious to listen to modern conversations where strength of conviction has replaced proof or evidence.

I would rather watch a grade B drama, fiction easily recognized, than listen to folly masquerading as brilliance and insight (a fiction declaring itself to be the highest truth or profound reality). In so doing, I avoid the malady of indifference, overstep the despair of fear and am able to reenergize for the battle for young minds. Laughter is the most fundamental ammo. I enjoyed the action and comedy in this drama. Appreciated the ending even more. Thank you from a gal in Barbados.
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