Nevertheless Mirroring Real People (28 July 21)

The kids of Nevertheless (the characters, I mean) are all college-age kids. They are below 25 years old, which means that their brains (frontal lobe) are all still in the period of development/rewiring. 


It’s difficult to expect people from this age range to make logical decisions 100 percent of the time. What were you doing when you were in college/early 20s? Did you not make similar mistakes, especially with relationships? Are you the same person now as you were back then?


Of course you made mistakes. Of course you are not the same person. If you were able to grow from your past self, it means that these kids could, too. What we are being presented with is a narrow strip of their path towards maturity, as it should as a coming of age story.


This is why the narrative of Nevertheless needs discernment beyond surface-level. If you take everything about this drama at face value, it would appear as if this story is ONLY all about flirting and college-age kids with raging hormones.


But it absolutely is not. Like I said previously, it presents to us these characters with complex layers so subtly outlined that it’s easy to look past them when you’re used to typical, black and white K-drama characters.

Which is where the beauty of #Nevertheless lies. These characters very aptly mirror real people. Heck, some characters here may remind you of a friend/an acquaintance in real life. Remember that friend you wanted to slap because she kept on crawling back to *that* specific guy?


When was the last time you judged a person based on his/her actions and what little you know of his/her intentions and history? 


Weren’t you, at some point in your life, misunderstood like these kids?


We would have wrongly judged a person’s character at least once in our lives. And this is because a person can only judge another from the limited information that the other is willing to show. 


Nabi is guilty of this from the very beginning.


More than the love angle, Nevertheless presents to us the errors that arise from the narrowness of the human perspective. It also shows a lesson on prejudice, or how our preconceived notions affect how we see either less than or beyond the actual intentions of a person’s actions.


From this perspective, it is interesting to see what direction Nevertheless would take in its last four episodes.


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