There’s probably only handful of movie/drama ever made that has a lasting impression on you even after you have finished watching the movie long ago.
At times, when the recommended movies have been exhausted, this is the one movie you go back to so that you could relive the experience and the joy the movie gave you.
This is a movie/drama that you go back to no matter how many times you have watched it or how long ago you watched it. With each reruns, the significance of the movie grows even further.
It’s like with each reruns, you notice the smallest details that you might have missed the many times you watched.
The characters played out so well that you actually come to believe that the characters are real people and the entire story is based on a real story.
Alas, movies are movies made for entertainment and we have to make do with being satisfied that there’s never going to be a next episode after the last one.
I would like to introduce that one drama for me which brings great joy and lifts my spirit. It is called Reply 1988.
It’s a Korean TV series which has a total of 20 episode with each more than 1 hour long. The story is protrayal of the 85-90 era in Korea. The main characters of the movies are 4 families that share a common neighbourhood and family-like bonds.
What I really like about the movies is that the families share kinship despite not having any family ties. They live and share each others good and bad times. I think I enjoy the movie because I miss that feeling of kinship; that bond you share with people who are not from the same blood but they are willing to go ends to support you no matter what. I watched the series 3 times last year (2020). It’s really helped me to cope with the lockdown from the pandemic. Also especially because I miss my family and haven’t seen them in 2 years. The apps are there to video call from time to time but its different when you are physically at home with your family.
Comparing the drama to present context, they seem to be too good to be true. Afterall, we are at a time when we have lost that touch. I wonder what has killed it? Do we become too materialistic once we advance interms of material wealth? Back home in Kathmandu, my parents have wonderful relationship with their neighbours. We are not related to them in anyway. They help to keep our family and home safe and we do the same for them. It’s just beautiful.
Here in Kuala Lumpur, cough! cough!, I wasn’t even aware that our next door neighbour had moved. I met the new neighbour only on one occassion when I found out that they had left their house keys inside their door knob, probably forgotten. I knocked to let them know that their key was in the door knob. He opened after like ages of knocking at the door looking slightly confused. He thanked me realising the situation and I have not met nor seen him since. This is a story from 3 months ago. To add one more story to the upsetting state of co-living with people in my current residence is that I have never seen some of the neighbours from my floor during my 2.6 years of living here. I live in a high-rise condominuim and there are several units in a floor.
On an optomistic and serious note, please look out for your neighbours or anybody especially during these hard times and not be completely oblivious. Pay it forward if you have been the recipeint of some stranger’s generosity or kindness. If you haven’t, let’s create new cycles. As the biggest joy in life is to know that you have helped somebody. These people, believe me, sleep the best sleeps in the world.
I made a slide show to give you some idea on how you could help especially with the COVID restrictions. These were taken from my instagram page karmarambles.
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