Dear Diary, I have thoughts.
There's like four of us watching Secrets Happened on the litchi Island, so I'm really writing this post for myself, but I have to get this out before the finale (even though there is apparently special episodes until June).
I think it's going to be a happy ending solely because of this moment!
Which I know it is wild to bank all my hopes on this two second moment at the end of episode six where someone simply removes a painting from a blue canvas, especially because it's a Chinese drama, but . . . I gotta stay clownin' or I'll dissolve into a muddle of tears. So since I'm basically talking to myself here, let me present my evidence to myself in the language I understand best — COLORS:
The show is beautiful, but it's not really color coded. Yet episode three, titled "Night Fire Deep Sea" got me thinking.
Because even though the show isn't color coded, the colors are still doing something.
So . . . I think the one usually in red is fire.
I had this theory when I was a wee toddler that the red character was gayer; therefore, he was the rebel because he was more passionate and wouldn't conform to the norms.
And in this story, the red one knows he is gay and even hit his roommate when he called him a faggot. He is rule breaker and a fighter, yet rosemary was put into his hair to stop mosquitoes from biting him. It's ironic because the plant represents lust and love, and it was placed there by the other boy who wanted to protect him.
The red usually knows first and, like fire, burns quickly, so the fire needs water because without it, the fire would burn everything to ash. The blue is usually the water because its love comes in waves, slow at first, but strong and deep enough to drown someone.
So the one in blue is water.
He does everything for everyone else because he never wants to cause distress. He is passive and kind. He is a rule follower and a caretaker.
Episode three featured both the fire for roasting the dinner and the water from the pool and the rain, and it also featured both boys in red and blue during the painting scene that is connected to why I think this will be a happy ending.
The red knows that he is falling in love with the blue, so he stays up all night and paints the black void with ripples cut into it. The blue wants to keep it. He thinks if he paints his walls red and hangs it, the painting will look like a night fire, but if it were hanging on a blue wall, it would be the deep sea.
But it seems to bother the red that the blue tried to label it. He moves away from him. Then, the blue sees the red's discomfort and says the piece could be anything really and he shouldn't be trying to define it. This makes the red happy.
Because it's about their love.
They can be both the night fire and the deep sea, and in the next episode, they switch colors as they watch the sun rise instead of a sunset, which is symbolic of a new beginning. The red wears blue shorts, and the blue wears red shorts.
But they don't have enough time left to explore this moment and are separated at the end of the summer, so when they do meet again the red begs the question of why he has to be gay while the other is straight.
But he only thinks the blue is straight because red's brother told him that the blue had a long-term girlfriend, which is a lie, but the blue doesn't tell the red this.
Instead, he runs even though the red is right there within in his grasp since he is now staying in the blue's apartment because he was kicked out of his dorm for hitting his roommate.
The blue had a choice. Let the fire consume him. Be rebellious. Break the norms. Or remain blue. Follow the rules. Drown.
He hadn't made a choice before, but once he realized how much he cared about the red, he got scared.
But, once again, why does everything have to be distinctly labeled? Why can't there be something besides being consumed by the raging fire or drowning in the deep sea? Why can't there be something more grounding? Something more peaceful? Why can't there be earth?
The red said in the green bathroom that their existence doesn't need to be explained as reasonable. They will exist, as they are, regardless of what they are defined as.
The woman who hires the red tells him it doesn't matter who he is that determines how good something will be. What matters is how much effort he puts into it. She tells him we need to cherish what is rare, and we shouldn't hate things because they are different but revel in their beauty because they are exceptional. And this woman with her red polka dots tells him even pain is a gift. But her ending message doesn't deter me because the greenery tells me that their love for each other will exist regardless if it is labeled or not. They know how they feel about each other, so they just need to cherish this rarity rather than trying to define it.
And that's why I was thrilled when blue removed the black ripples from the deep sea painted canvas and imagined himself back in the countryside with his guy, in their colors.
Because it came directly after the woman in pink told him to stop looking at society for answers when he only needs to look within himself. He is trying to figure out why the lychee aren't growing because he thinks something in the environment is causing the trees stress, but the conversation about a fruit that symbolizes love isn't just about the lychee. It's about him and his love. He gave the red his first lychee when they were there, and now they don't grow.
So because of all of this, I think this shot from the trailer will be in the final episode with both boys back in their colors and the blue in front of a sign that reads "Why?" "Imagining your return" and "Not influenced by the environment" with rainbow air balloons and sunflowers, and even though I might be overthinking it, I want to believe it's meaningful. I want them to return to the green place that started it all and forget about the labels or society. I want them to remember that feeling and be at peace with each other. And more than anything, I want them to be together.
Because the rosemary, the lychee, the colors, the fire, the water, the earth, the painting, the sunrise, and the signs have to mean something, right?
So I'm praying they mean a happy ending.
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