When the rich meets the poor and the poor meets the rich: L'Escargot

Many times, most of us think that the poor and rich live in different dimensions of life. The rich seems to have their own group of peers and the poor have their own group of friends. The poor have their own impressions of the rich and think that becoming rich is too far a place for them.

What happens if the rich and the poor's path happen to cross? When they meet each other will they be able to interact well? There's this new Hong Kong drama on channel 8 which interestingly shows the life of 2 different people. One is poor while one is rich. When i watch it, it seems exactly like how two different dimensions of people behave. The drama is titled L'Escargot or in chinese: 缺宅男女. It is shown on Mediacorp channel 8 every Monday to Friday at 7pm.

The show starts off with a family of 9 living in a small apartment. As they are quite poor, they have to share rooms and even think of ways to save money. When they didn't have money to buy a shoe cabinet, they use plastic holders to hang it on the wall and paste each family member's name on each plastic holder. They were still joking that each person can only buy one pair of shoes and if you want to buy another pair, then you have to throw away the first one if not there will be not enough space to put. On the other hand when the rich wanted to buy a shoe cabinet, they didn't even have to think of the cost and just bought a huge shoe cabinet which can put hundreds of shoes.

There were many other cases of how the rich and poor live their lives differently. But when their paths crossed, interestingly they had the same principle of life. Both were responsible in what they do and never go for petty gains. The poor even though they are poor, still had backbone when it comes to money. They will never accept money which oppose to their principle of life. The poor thought that the rich go for petty gains that's why they became rich but in the end, they realised that the rich also did not cut cost just to earn more money. This was what the whole drama is driving at till now.

What happens later will be for us to see. How the drama acts out life in such a realistic way is really commendable. Watch it if you're interested.

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