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The Top 3 Things Needed to Overcome Any Obstacle
If you think this show is about rape, you're wrong. If rape was seen as bad, then why does every perpetrator of rape in the show get away with it? The closest to punishment is Aud, who gets to willingly transfer to an university in another country. He even gets a regular goodbye scene with his basketball mates. Only his servant Uncle Wit is punished for his dedication. If not rape, what is this show about? It's about how being beautiful, straight and rich help you overcome obstacles and people's judgments. Som was beautiful and straight, but she was poor, so she was violently raped, had to endure the cruel judgments of her ignorant parents and ended up working for a man who is paying to possess her in installments by making her his personal secretary. As a poor girl with irresponsible parents, that's all she can hope for. She doesn't overcome so much as learn to endure. Namnhao is beautiful and rich, but he isn't straight, so is he violently raped, had to be subjected to rejection by his own parents and was never able to fall in love, like every other person his age would do. He doesn't overcome, he is too weak because he is gay, and kills himself instead. Then there's Lookaew, who possesses beauty, wealth and heterosexuality in abundance. Everyone wants her or wants to be her. Not even the death of both her parents can stop her from pretending to kill herself to teach all of us lower forms of life a lesson. What is that lesson? That she is better than the rest of us because she has the resources (wealth, beauty, heterosexual privilege) to overcome any obstacle, including being date raped. At one point, Aud asks Pretchpaew why she is helping him. She answers truthfully that Lookaew has enough people looking after her. Why would they? Because she's Lookaew. Not even Archa is rewarded for his steadfast commitment to her. This show isn't about all of us, it's about teaching us that we should leave people like Lookwaew, rich and beautiful and straight, alone because they will overcome in the end anyway. You know who else had all three? Aud. Didn't he overcome too?
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