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Light On Me, Ep. 16: Can I Walk You Home?
LIGHT ON ME (2021)
the symbolism in light on me
everyone's been talking about light on me displaying a whole lot of symbolisms to show the growth of the boys' relationships and the contrast between tae and daon and tae and shinwoo. im not gonna repeat them all, but here's the one i noticed today.
have u all stopped to think about the difference in purposedly forced things and fate-like accidents?
with daon, it all seems a little forced, like everything had to be done on purpose for it to happen. they met bc tae decided he wanted to make friends and purposely joined the student council. they becane friends because daon purposely forced encounters with tae to make him feel more at ease and open about people and friendships. they started liking each other for this exact reasons, bc they kept meeting through acts of help and kindness that were planned by them both.
with shinwoo its different. the first time shinwoo saw him was by accident when he saw tae helping the man carry the trash bags, and then accidentally saw him reject the hang out with those boys in class and the ONE time he tried to purposely force an encounter with him by bumping into his shoulder, it went wrong and nothing came out of if. still, fate seems to have brought them together by chance, by mere coincidences. like how they met, and how tae found out about shinwoo 's feelings purely accidentally bc he happened to want to get his phone fixed that day. also, the way tae accidentally found the keychain that had been bought for him in contrast to him purposely giving the bracelet to daon.
to me, all of this points that things that are meant to be are never forced, they come to you when u least expect them and they are often the most precious things that will happen to you in the end.
when he wants to give you something, but you’re a dumbass
Taekyung's neurodivergance is actually central to the story that Light On Me is telling. If he weren't different, if he didn't miss social cues or misunderstand people's reactions, he wouldn't be pursuing this friendship with Shinwoo. If he didn't have a single-minded focus that nothing could shake, he wouldn't insist on their friendship. None of this would happen if Taekyung understood social cues or the way other people think. His different way of thinking drives the entire story, all his relationships and all the ways he's helping the people around him. The same things that kept him isolated are now winning over the people he's coming to care for and that's beautiful.