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Are You Sure to Get Married?

How far you can go to put your life on a screen?

By Letizia De LucaPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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Are we blind?

How many of you have been watching the show Married at First Sight? The answer is easy if you are amongst those two million viewers sunk in the sofa enjoying it.

But—What would your response be?—if someone asks to attend the show, exactly like all the other couples that have already been there.

When I started watching the show, it was pretty weird to me how random people decide to "get married" to strangers, but after a couple of episodes, the show had me unexpectedly hooked and, after three years, I am still watching the 2019 season. But this year, there was a moment where I said to myself that, besides the entertainment in itself, there was something inexplicably dodgy and worrying behind the decision that moves these people to take part in the show.

As I followed through the episodes, I started to realise the lame yet dangerous motifs that were lurking around the whole series. Said that I don't want to judge anybody who decided to watch and enjoy the show. I have just been wondering about the enticing setting which makes everything so riveting and why relationship experts and coaches are involved in it calling the show an "Experiment."

They create a sort of dossier with the contestants' details and pictures, and they cooperate matching each other following, tempers, hobbies, attitudes, lifestyles and so on. Said that it is understandable that the people on the dossier went to the casting with their own will. I would say life is an experiment in general, very tough sometimes, and that's why I find it quite impossible to find your 'soulmate' on a TV show.

Despite that, people are still watching it, because they like it and because they love that kind of amusement. By the way, I am not any self-styled bigotted or savvy sociologist but, as we all know, TV is the most popular medium of information, and it can be turn it on with a simple click of your finger and always present in our daily life.

I bet 90 percent of you will agree with me.

In my opinion, the big screen and social media both mirror the momentum of our society in every single aspect of our lives. We must admit that our technology era is having a massive impact on our human relationships, so much so, that the more alluring our pictures, the more other people "like" us.

How many times a day we open our Instagram account or the Facebook page to check if our followers' number is going up; the big picture of all this seems to be that this kind of shows represents, for the most, the exact transposition of their normal life into something that makes that kind of less ordinary, and fancier.

Although we are surrounded continuously by virtual images, it is still hard to understand why young men and women declare themselves interested in going to the show to find real love, overcoming their inner fears, leaving behind their families and their friends or merely because they are hunting a thrilling experience. On top of that, during the show, the couples are utterly aware of being recorded and being watched by millions of people around the world exposing, by doing that, their lives and their privacy at the mercy of the entire TV business. They decide to jump into pre-orchestrated weddings, artificial and fanciful environments, where they can simulate a part of their life they've always dreamt for, building the kind of personal profile they'd kill to have.

Do those people want to live a vain and fleeting sparkle of fame, to be able to switch their 'real' life off for a while?

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Letizia De Luca

Stay foolish stay hungry! Based in Melbourne but Italian born. I decided to jump into the unknown landing with my self into Oz land! Travel lover, good company, good wine, good food....and all the possible good people along the way:)

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