Corduroy (Photo: PR Hot)
The finale of "Corduroy" frames its theme in a way reminiscent of high school geometry problems: being a young Tel Avivian with Edge = converting your personality into an empty façade. Fasada = Escape from emotions. Feel emotions = be Sakhi. Anyone who wants to live a full life must be Sakhi - M.S.L. This is an endearing framing of a much more complex life experience that almost anyone who has ever experienced themselves from the outside could relate to. The idea is simple: to show that the empty life in which you act as a caricature of yourself is, well, empty. However, just like her main character, Corduroy does not dare to step outside her own boundaries and momentarily lose her passon in favor of a piece of sincerity and true transmission of the message.
Between sex scenes with a frequency that wouldn't embarrass Game of Thrones (not that we're complaining), and an important touch on the gray line between obvious sexual harassment and outright sexual harassment that you are gaslighted, the series tells the story of a heroine whose only stronghold is to be the antithesis of a full-fledged bourgeois person. She's not 30 years old, but she's not a discharged soldier either, that is, not someone who has a youthful spirit on her but also not a youthful spirit, who is actually in the tedious period where you have to act like a motherfucker because that's all you have left in the prison called the twenties. She dislikes, despises, and raves at the same time as the seemingly boring life, all while living in a jumble of drugs, and forbidden affairs, and refuses to have any experience that might lower her pulse below 180.
In fact, watching "Corduroy" feels a bit like watching the life you 12-year-old imagined take place in the third decade of life, or alternatively your worried parents think you're alive when they ask at Friday dinner if you've ever heard of Sam Hamedy, which they obviously pronounce. And perhaps this is also exactly the essence of the striped spot. Instead of dispelling the veil of mystery and giving an honest glimpse into the experience of loneliness that accompanies an outer life, one that is alienated from simple roots to the point of self-loss, "Corduroy" insists on preserving Edge with more and more dialogue that hovers over the sore spot but never really touches it. Those who hedge the truth, but always leave the main stage for paperwork and maintenance.
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Finishes about the same as it started. "Corduroy" (Photo: HOT)
The protagonist, who opens the series assuming a distant and invulnerable image, remains as such even at the end, with a feeble understanding of the sacrifice she must make to be close to her love interest. In one of the final scenes, she faints (or makes herself) in response to an overly boring dinner she attended, a scene that is the key phrase of the entire series. While trying to convey an emotional process to the character while still keeping her "attractive" in each and every scene, she loses her charm and remains nothing more than a general prototype of a person who has not yet visited the psychologist. The possibility of connecting with it honestly is almost as minimal as the total number of scenes in the series that did not meet the dictionary definition of the word "cool."
And perhaps ironically, "Corduroy" conveys the message in reverse. When she falls too in love with her own idea, her development and growth are prevented, and the danger of relying too heavily on your external image is transferred. Because growing up hurts, and looking at yourself honestly hurts even more. But therein lies life, too, I heard. The name of the prize of those who are willing to abandon their sarcastic position and be exposed. While refusing to abandon the distant position, "Corduroy" remains in place and fails to grow, proving to us all that the real Edge is always bound up with the truth.
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