my liberation notes
web series recommendation for a specific state of mind
There are some shows that hug you like a cocoon and make you feel all those human elements of life like loneliness, that deep desire of wanting to have someone whom you can tell everything, question how are people able to smile and keep going on when they are going to die, what are they so happy about?
Even if you are the most talkative person in the room, it’s possible that you are not saying what you truly want to say. And you just want someone in your life, whom you can tell everything. Every dark thought. Every light and stupid thought. With just no filter.
Now imagine you are able to see inside this person’s mind and then how they are interacting with the rest of the world.
The show has less of a story and more of character arcs. People talk less with each other and more with themselves. So their is less dialogue and more inner monologue.
At times you will feel like, you are intruding on someone’s me time. But also understand them in a very compassionate way.
You have to be in a certain mindset or certain point of life to relate to it. Because every character’s story in some way revolves around, “I don’t know where I am stuck but I want to be free.”
Every scene is the show seems too realistic. The nature sounds, sitting in the sunlight, cooking, chopping vegetable, washing, drinking water. As if there’s a certain elegance and romantic edge to the everyday ordinary life and you just need the lens to see it.
It might seem too slow for you.
But that’s why I said, you can only relate to it if you are feeling a strong sense of wanting to break free of something. You don’t know exactly what but you feel stuck.
Some lines that stayed with me, since I heard them:
“I just want to talk to someone. Anyone”
You have been talking all this time. You talk all the time. You still want to talk more?
“I’ve never said what I really wanted to say. I don’t want to just say things to feel like I exist. I want to talk to relax.
A conversation...
Words that make you feel relaxed.”
“The words sit on the tip of your tongue, wanting to come out. But when you swallow them back down, that’s when you know you’re an adult.”
“I don’t have a specific goal in my life. Money, honour, women. Nothing. Do I have to have a goal? Can’t I just live without one?”
“It feels like I’m stuck, but I don’t know how to get out. That’s probably why I hope everything ends all at once.”
“Just once, I want to hear someone say they adore me.”
“I don’t care where I’ll go after I die. I want to see heaven while I’m alive.”
“Sometimes I think the people who are damaged are much more honest than those who live their lives happily.”
“Fate is nothing more than a person’s outlook on life.”
If you watch the show, do let me know your thoughts on it.
Poitu Varen,
Akanksha