Mare Fuori 3: Carmine, Rosa and the impossible love that always works

Anyone who loves and appreciates literature knows that impossible loves are the beating heart of many successful works. In front of two people who love each other but who can’t be together, the public becomes passionate and fervent, as if those two people were friends to give a little push to bring them to crown their dream of love. It happened with Catherine and Heathcliff, with Lolita and Professor Humbert Humbert, and now with Carmine Di Salvo and Rosa Ricci, the two great protagonists of the third season of Sea Out, bound by an impossible love because, just like Romeo and Juliet, they belong to two clans that have always fought each other and that could never accept that their two offspring lay down the hatchet to allow themselves to love each other. Carmine and Rose, brilliantly interpreted by Massimiliano Caiazzo and Maria Esposito, they work because they represent something that the public cannot but root for: the adolescent attraction that deserves to be satisfied and the desire to break conventions and rules to try to be happy in their own way, letting no one build the future for They.

From the very first episode of this third season it was clear that Sea Out told us that tenderness would soon break out between the two. On one side was Carmine, wounded for no longer having Filippo and Naditza by his side and still on the mend from the tragic death of Nina; on the other there was Rosa, who decided to be locked up in the IPM for the sole purpose of avenging the death of her brother Ciro whom she thought Carmine had killed. Although she hates him and embodies everything that her father has always told her about the De Salvo family, Rosa sees in Carmine’s eyes something good and something complicit, tracing in him the most human gaze and the most imbued with respect that I have ever met on his path. His defenses, however, are high, and that’s why Carmine puts his effort into getting the girl to trust him, trying to build a relationship that Rosa has never had with anyone else, raised from an early age in a context where it has always been very clear that one had to rely only on oneself.

As the writers of Sea Out they are at least as skilled as the writers who have made their fortune over the centuries, at a certain point it is clear that Carmine and Rosa are very close to breaking down the barriers and being able to imagine a future together, but if it were all that simple there would be no taste, and the writers know this too. Pirucchio’s death and Edoardo’s wounding contribute to increasing the distance between them even if it soon becomes clear that the two boys work like a magnet with a piece of iron and are no longer able to do without each other. The last scene before the grand finale broadcast on Rai2 on 22 March, with Don Salvatore who catches the two boys entwined and puts the gun in Rosa’s hand asking her to choose between family and love, it is so effective that it can be studied in dramaturgy books because it is the treasurer of everything we want from a story: the dramatic tension, the ability to get emotional and also the anxiety to know how it will end. In short, there will also be social media and platforms, but certain stories will work forever, and it’s a good thing that Carmine and Rosa reminded us so delicately.