sentinel episode 19

Screecaps parents commit suicide

In epi 19, Dor Bo reverts back to a child at seeing his parents dying. That instant rush of dread, of fright, that wells up from deep within him overwhelms his comprehension; why are his parents spilling from their mouths when just seconds ago they chatted normally with him? His mentality can't cope so collapses, shorted by a child's fear at seeing his parents dying before his eyes. Incomprehensible, horrifying nightmare! His eyes widen in horror as he listens to his parents' explanations. His voice raises several pitch in fear and pain as he loudly berates them for their action. What? What? Don't understand, don't understand. You are so stupid, stupid! Tears rained down his face, blurring his vision as he scrambles like a beheaded fly looking in vain for the antidote. Where's the antidote? Where? He is lost, and has completely lost it.



His mom and dad hold tightly to his hands refusing to let him out of their sight for fear of not seeing him for very the last time before they die. Helpless, Dor Bo bawls loudly like a child at their inevitable death, tears pour like twin waterfalls from his eyes. (I cried too!) Parents' love is truly the greatest love on earth. The loud cries evoke the deep pain from his heart, if a heart can break, Dor Bo's heart is right now shattering. He starts to sob uncontrollably as he speaks in gasps to his dying parents. When his parents draw their last breath, he wails in anguish. The nightmare is absolute. Childishly, he wills them to come back to life, no, he commands them not to die. He is a child in a fit. His most beloved belonging has been taken from him. He wants them back. They cannot die. They must get up back to life. They must! He wails in futility in pain! What else can a child do when his parents died so unexpectedly and simultaneously for an incomprehensible reason? He hugs them to him, never wanting to let them go, their bodies still warm and full of life. Come back! come back! You can't die! You can't die! Oh, the futility and the helplessness of that cry! How cruel are the gods to ignore such heartrending cry.

This wasn't acting, it was real emotions pouring out from Dor Bo at the death of his most beloved parents. And his parents were acting, they loved their son so much that they died for him. We us viewers were touched and cried with Dor Bo because we felt their real and genuine emotions. That's what brilliant actors supposed to do, they pulled viewers into their world with the verisimilitude of their performance. Thank you, Steven, thank you Kwok Fung and Helen Ma for a most brilliant performance.

Compare Dor Bo's anguish to his birth father's death and to his adopted parents' death? In the former, he was calm and accepting because after all his birth father was still a relative stranger to him. He had a deep regret and pain at not being able to further develop their father-son relationship, the bloodline runs deep, but though not of same bloodline, his adopted parents were part of his soul and being. Their death is like ripping off a bit of his soul, his heart, his spirit and his whole being from him. He dies a little with their death. They were his whole world. Without them to support that world, it collapses around him. He is once again an orphan.