August 28, 2021 - Move marathon this chill Saturday morning... Here's my 2 cents on the TV series Designated Survivor S2E4.

With all the political and terrorism issues the Designated Survivor has been up to until it wraps up to its 2nd season finale, there is one episode na tumatak talaga sa akin. It’s not about how President Kirkman resolves and confronts critical issues at the White House, but it’s about a scene on Season 2 Episode 4, subtitled Equilibrium #DesignatedSurvivor scene between a top senior White House staff Aaron who is a Mexican, and Nadia, also a Mexican who works as an aide to an American senator who pushed on legislative matter relative to US-Mexican labor issues specifically on undocumented Mexican immigrant workers in America. Nadia reminds Aaron that there are Mexican families (and relatives) on the other side of the border.

Nadia to Aaron: 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒕.

Na-pick up ko dito is that: 𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 and must 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄.

No matter what we have accomplished, no matter how busy we are at work or what we have been up to, we should look back to where we are....𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠.

Well, the redeeming part here before the episode ends, is that Aaron with his guilty conscience is finally reconnected with his heritage.

2You and Gloria Perez Baay

𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝

 

"𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚." The last two lines from my favorite classic novel, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐘𝐄 by J.D. Salinger, which until now, no movie adaptation has ever been made. Well, maybe because the novel is a little bit 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 (𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠), and 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 , written through the lens of a 16-year old Holden Caulfield who is suffering from alienation and social anxiety - 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬i𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.

As the novel progresses, I can see Holden's black and white view of the world gets challenged both by his own mistakes and by his interactions with other people.

𝐀 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦.